By changing the plane of focus and taking additional pictures, it's possible to create a stack of images (called a z-stack) that captures the three-dimensional details of the sample.

The goal behind [ItMightBeWorse]’s microscope mods is “focus stacking,” a technique where multiple images of the same sample taken at different focal planes can be stitched together so that ...

[The Thought Emporium]’s video, also below the break, is about getting crisp pictures from a DSLR camera and a microscope using focus stacking, sometimes called image stacking.

UT Southwestern Scientists have invented an optical device they claim can be retrofitted to microscopes to capture 3D images of cells.

A water flea (Daphnia) carrying embryos and ciliated vase-shaped protozoans called peritrichs taken at 10X magnification using image stacking and darkfield microscopy by Jan van IJken of Jan van ...

The technically challenging image came from Jason Kirk, a microscopist from the Baylor College of Medicine. Kirk built a custom microscope system to capture the unique image.

Scientists have created a thin handheld microscope that can obtain high-quality images in a fraction of the time required by traditional scanning microscopes.

Amazing microscope images reveal beauty in unlikely places, like cow dung Help choose the best microscope images, from a centipede's fearsome poison fangs to dung-dwelling fungi.

This year's best microscope photos from the Nikon Small World contest will give you an eye-full of some of the amazing things you usually can't see at all.