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ITG Technology Development:
Remote Microscopy
The Remote Microscopy project provides web based
remote control of microscopes in the ITG as part of the World
Wide Laboratory. There are a number of advantages to providing remote access
to imaging instrumentation. First, it provides access to unique and/or expensive
instruments without requiring the user to be physically present at the site of
the instrument. In addition, it provides the opportunity for collaboration
and/or consultation with researchers anywhere in the world, thus providing for a
network of distributed expertise. Finally, this technology presents unprecedented
opportunities for education and training.
In addition to ITG's remote microscopy initiative, a related endeavour is
their work in virtual microscopy. ITG is currently involved in a project to
develop a full-fledged Virtual SEM (VSEM) for the purposes of teaching, training,
education and research.
This project, called the VSEM Project, is funded by the Kennedy Space
Center at NASA as the first installed instrument
in their Virtual Laboratory project.
ITG Microscopes with remote control capability
ITG Projects using Remote Microscopy
ITG Software for remote microscope control
Publications
Grosser, B., Kisseberth, N. and Weber, D. (2002) irma—An Interactive Remote
Microscopy Application for WWW-Based Control of an Environmental Scanning
Electron Microscope (ESEM). Imaging
Technology Group Technical Report 02-002. Thakkar,
U., Fried, G., Grosser, B., Robinson, S., Weber, D., Korb,
M., & Lee,
J. (2002). Integrating
remote scientific instrumentation in the curriculum
to support inquiry: Case studies in K-12 and
teacher education. Proceedings of Society for Information
Technology and Teacher Education (pp.
2144-2145). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education. Thakkar,
U., Bruce, B. C., Hogan, M. P., & Williamson,
J. (2001). Extending literacy through
participation in new technologies. Journal of Adolescent and
Adult Literacy, 45(3), 212-219. Potter,
C. S., Carragher, B., Carroll, C., Grosser, B., Hanlon, J.,
Kisseberth, N., Robinson, S., Thakkar,
U., & Weber, D. (2001). Bugscope: A practical approach
to providing remote microscopy for science
education outreach. Microscopy and Microanalysis Journal, 7(3),
249-252. Thakkar,
U., Carragher, B., Carroll, L., Conway, C., Grosser, B., Kisseberth,
N., Potter, C. S., Robinson,
S., Sinn-Hanlon, J., Stone, D., & Weber, D. (2000). Formative
evaluation of Bugscope: A sustainable
world wide laboratory for K-12. Educational Resources Information
Center (ERIC) Document
Reproduction Service, ED441018, 37 p. Potter,
C. S., Carragher, B., Carroll, L., Conway, C., Grosser, B., Hanlon,
J., Kisseberth, N., Robinson,
S., Stone, D., Thakkar, U., & Weber, D. (2000). Bugscope:
A sustainable remote microscopy project
for K-12. Paper for the panel on “Participatory science via the Internet.”
Proceedings of the Fourth
International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 379-380). Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Grosser, B. and Kisseberth, N. (1999) irma: An Interactive Remote Microscopy
Application for WWW-Based Control of an Environmental Scanning Electron
Microscope (ESEM). Proceedings: Workshop on Automated Control of Distributed
Instrumentation (ACDI ’99). Bruce,
B. C., Thakkar, U., & Hogan, M. P. (1999).
Inquiry-based learning and teaching with new
technologies. Spectrum: Journal of the Illinois Science Teachers Association,
25(2), 16-19. Potter,
C. S., Carragher, B., Ceperley, M., Conway, C., Grosser, B.,
Hanlon, J., Hoyer, C., Kisseberth, N., Robinson, S.,
Sapp, J., Soskin, P., Stone,
D., Thakkar, U., & Weber, D. (1999). Bugscope: A
sustainable web-based telemicroscopy project for K-12 classrooms. Proceedings
of the Microscopy
and Microanalysis (pp. 514-515). Chicago, IL: Microscopy Society of
America. Kisseberth, N., G. Brauer, B. Grosser, C.S. Potter and B. Carragher. (1999)
JavaScope: A Web-Based TEM Control Interface. Journal of Structural Biology,
125, pp. 229-234.
“ The World Wide
Laboratory: Remote and Automated Access to Imaging Instrumentation”,
B. Carragher and C.S. Potter, Paper presented at the National Reseach
Council Chemical Sciences Roundtable Workshop on the Imapact of Advances
in Computing and Communications in Chemical Sciences and Technology,
November 1-2, 1998, Washington DC. National Academy Press. pp. 141-153 C.S. Potter, R. Brady, P. Moran,
C. Gregory, B. Carragher, N. Kisseberth, J. Lyding, J.Lindquist, "EVAC: A Virtual
Environment for Control of Remote Imaging Instrumentation” Computer
Graphics and Applications, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vol 16, No.
4 pp. 62-66,July, 1996
ITG Technical Reports on Remote Microscopy
ITG Forums on Remote Microscopy
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