USE OF CONFOCAL LASER-SCANNING MICROSCOPY IN AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDY

Confocal laser scanning microscopy was used to visualize the radioauto graph at the light-microscope level. Confocal reflectance images from developed silver grains were overlaid with the differential interferen ce contrast image of the tissue. With this technique, a well-focused r adioautograph can be taken of both tissue sections and all of the silv er grains dispersed in the thick emulsion layer. Further application o f this microscopy is discussed.