Re: Pixel size

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Capture an image of a stage micrometer and you will know for sure.
Everything else is just educated guessing.
Doug

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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Christophe Leterrier
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:04 PM
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Subject: Re: Pixel size

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If there is no other magnifying/demagnifying optics in your
microscope, the theoretical pixel size is 4.65/40=116.25 nm

Christophe

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 20:43,  <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Bonjour à tous,
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> I have a tiff image, 1392 x 1040 - 4.65 um square pixels acquired with a
> camera interline Sony , 1.4 megapixel, color(7.6mm x 6.2mm array).  I use
> a 40 x objective mounted on  a table microscope Leica DME.
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> Can I find the pixel size in hte image?
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> Thanks ,
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> Louis
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