{"id":202,"date":"2015-11-06T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:27:17","slug":"dic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/dic\/","title":{"rendered":"Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) Microscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><i>What is differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC)\u00a0and how can it help me in\u00a0my research?<\/i><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Differential interference contrast<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0(DIC) microscopy, also known as Nomarski\u00a0<\/span>Interference Contrast<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0(NIC), is an optical microscopy illumination technique used to enhance the\u00a0<\/span>contrast<span style=\"color: #222222\">\u00a0in unstained, transparent samples (e.g. live cells).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Find out more:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leica-microsystems.com\/science-lab\/differential-interference-contrast-dic\/\">Leica Science Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microscopyu.com\/articles\/dic\/index.html\">Nikon Microscopy U<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/olympus.magnet.fsu.edu\/primer\/techniques\/dic\/dichome.html\">Olympus Microscopy Resource Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zeiss-campus.magnet.fsu.edu\/referencelibrary\/dic.html\">Zeiss Online Campus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Our DIC\u00a0systems:<\/em><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/upright,-fully-automated,-multimodal-research-microscope\">Olympus BX61 microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-super-resolution-capability\">Zeiss LSM 880 confocal microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/research-equipment\/equipment\/view\/confocal-laser-scanning-microscope-with-upright-and-inverted-stands\">Leica DM6000 microscope<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC)\u00a0and how can it help me in\u00a0my research? Differential interference contrast\u00a0(DIC) microscopy, also known as Nomarski\u00a0Interference Contrast\u00a0(NIC), is an optical microscopy illumination technique used to enhance the\u00a0contrast\u00a0in unstained, transparent samples (e.g. live cells). Find out more: Leica Science Lab Nikon Microscopy U Olympus Microscopy Resource Center Zeiss Online Campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/bioimaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}