Natural Science Forum / Physics / Optics / December 2006

Hello All,

I'm a grad student at UCSD working on automation of tomograpy in high
voltage TEMs. I think that some sort of computation model of the
microscope would useful - I imagine a piece of software that shows a 3D
rendering of where the stage and beam are and the way the beam is going
through the sample. The software reads from the microscope setting to
make it's model match the actual state of the microscope. So, when
adjustments need to be made, automation software could use this model
of the microscope to help figure out exactly what needs to be adjusted
and how. Also, a human would be able to look at the model and verify
that it is "working" - matching the actual microscope state.

Does anyone know if such a piece of software does exist - or if anyone
is working on such a thing?

Any help will be appreciated

-Rick

Richard J. Giuly
Bioengineering Graduate Student
University of California, San Diego
If you respond by email please use: rgiuly at ucsd dot edu