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 Microscope techniques and laboratory procedures for indoor air quality, toxic mold identification, & bioaerosol investigations
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List of microscopy classes, references, documents. This document assists mold and other aerobiology or forensic laboratories and technicians by listing
laboratory and microscopy education courses, equipment, and resources.
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Microscope Techniques, Training, Resources for Forensic Building Investigation or Indoor Air Quality & Dust, Mold, or Other Particle Identification
Readers should also see SLIDE PREPARATION, MICROSCOPE where we describe mold test and forensic microscopy slide preparation procedures and see MICROSCOPE SLIDE PREP - PERMANENT MOUNTS where we describe using meltmount or Canada balsam and similar products for permananent microscope slide preparation. More microscope slide procedures are described at PAINT LAB SAMPLE PREPARATION.
Microscope Equipment & Suppliers
In our Lab
- Bioscope #60 projection Standard Microscope, Boltaron case,
10x, 20x, 6.5mm eyepiece. (Fiber identification and image projection especially for fiber identification and forensic studies).
- Olympus
Microscopes – biological sample examination – Olympus CH-2 trinocular, w/Nikon
Coolpix 900 digital camera, #5F0837, 30W, 100, 40, 25, 10x, glass
condenser, field diaphragm
- Polam Microscope, trinocular – forensic microscopy, polarized
light, magnification to 1920x – Lomo Polam L213TR #NXA0256, complete, w/Nikon Coolpix 900,
& rotary interference monochrometer Fisher Scientific – biological
science lab supplies
- Unico
ZM180 trinocular stereo zoom
microscope BL122, focus, light stand, tilt mirror base, 10x eyepieces,
2x front, lamp, bulb, Coolpix adapter, filters, fiber optic
light
Other microscope and forensic microscopy laboratory equipment sources of interest
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Technical Reviewers & References
Related Topics, found near the top of this page suggest articles closely related to this one.
- AIRBORNE PARTICLE ANALYSIS METHODS - Airborne Particle Calculations,
How to calculate airborne particle concentrations for mold, IAQ, allergens, or other forensic particle studies - Mold Test Laboratory SOPs
- MICROSCOPE SLIDE PREPARATION - Microscope slide preparation methods - mold pollen bioaerosols - for indoor air quality analysis - Mold Testing Laboratory SOP
- LAB PROCEDURES MICROSCOPE TECHNIQUES - Microscope techniques and laboratory procedures for indoor air quality, toxic mold identification, & bioaerosol investigations
- LAB & FIELD IAQ EQUIPMENT SOP - Forensic Microscopy, Particle Identification & IAQ Investigation Field Equipment Specifications, including physical properties (such as particle trace dimensions) and calibration data for air sampling and other test equipment
- MICROSCOPE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - how to obtain sharp photographs of views through the microscope using a digital camera
- TECHNICAL & LAB PROCEDURES - Technical Procedure Articles on Testing for Mold and other Indoor Air Quality IAQ Contaminants
- For most-recent microscope optical measurements: field width data and calibration see: Olympus-CH-2.xls & Polam Optics.xls Calibration is repeated no less than when an objective is removed/replaced or other microscope optical or
stage components are removed/replaced, or if a new technician is employed.
- For most-recent calculations of % of trace represented by n cross-scans see: Particle Counts.xls
- For automated calculations of particles or spores per cubic meter of air (spores/M3)
from raw airborne particle counts see: @SporeCountWork.xls
- For spore count worksheets see: sheet 2 of @SporeCountWork.xls
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