Dictionary of microbiology

DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE CONTRAST

differential interference contrast: translation

(DIC) microscope
A light microscope that employs two beams of plane polarized light. The beams are combined after passing through the specimen and their intereference is used to create the image.

  1. differential interference contrast—differential interference contrast translationMethod of image formation in the light microscope based on the method proposed by Nomarski though strictly speaking all form...Dictionary of molecular biology