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Description

The movie shows the wave-like effect of compensated birefringence caused by rotating spirochetes attached to the surface of a hypermastigote protozoan. The image was obtained using a rectified polarizing microscope with compensator.

Biological Sources

NCBI Organism Classification: Hypermastigote protozoan; unidentified spirochete

Biological Context

Biological Process

Attribution

Names: Shinya Inoue
Published: S. Inoue 2008 Collected Works of Shinya Inoue. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, Hackensack, NJ, USA

Citation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi:10.7295/W9CIL11970
Archival Resource Key (ARK): ark:/b7295/w9cil11970

Imaging

Image Type: recorded image
Image Mode: polarization microscopy
Parameters Imaged: retardance
Source of Contrast: form birefringence
Visualization Methods: visualization of contiguous regions
Data Qualifiers: processed data

Sample Preparation

Methods: living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell: whole mounted tissue

Dimensions

Spatial Axis	Image Size	Pixel Size
X	704px	——
Y	480px	——