New theory of the microscope

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Dear Microscopists,


Anatoly Khitrin was a professor at Kent State University (where I work, too). His specialty was nuclear magnetic resonance and quantum theory. But he was also a man of unique scientific erudition and imagination, and when I had a problem understanding some theoretical questions of microscopic imaging, I came to him for help. By the next day, he came up with a totally novel way to describe formation of a microscopic transmission image. In retrospect,  his approach is extremely simple and obvious but, as far as I know, no one has ever come up with such an idea before. A paper has been published after Khitrin's untimely death last summer. Although my name is also on that paper, I am not trying to promote my work because it is really his work. I hope you will find it interesting and useful.


Khitrin AK et al. Bright-Field Microscopy of Transparent Objects: A Ray Tracing Approach. Microsc Microanal. 2017 Nov 6:1-5. doi: 10.1017/S1431927617012624.

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In response to several requests, I uploaded a file with that paper:

https://du1ux2871uqvu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/profile-documents/Khitrin%20et%20al.%20Microsc%20Microanal.pdf

Mike Model

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Dear Microscopists,


Anatoly Khitrin was a professor at Kent State University (where I work, too). His specialty was nuclear magnetic resonance and quantum theory. But he was also a man of unique scientific erudition and imagination, and when I had a problem understanding some theoretical questions of microscopic imaging, I came to him for help. By the next day, he came up with a totally novel way to describe formation of a microscopic transmission image. In retrospect,  his approach is extremely simple and obvious but, as far as I know, no one has ever come up with such an idea before. A paper has been published after Khitrin's untimely death last summer. Although my name is also on that paper, I am not trying to promote my work because it is really his work. I hope you will find it interesting and useful.


Khitrin AK et al. Bright-Field Microscopy of Transparent Objects: A Ray Tracing Approach. Microsc Microanal. 2017 Nov 6:1-5. doi: 10.1017/S1431927617012624.