interference reflection microscopy

interference reflection microscopy
An optical technique for detecting the topography of the side of a cell in contact with a planar substrate, and for providing information on the separation of the plasmalemma from the substrate. Interference between the reflections from the substrate-medium interface and the reflections from the plasmalemma-medium interface generate the image.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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