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Journal of ICfOSCOPYy P. Echlin, K. M. Knowles, T. Mattfeldt, J. B. Pawley, D. B. Williams Volume 174 1994 © 1994 The Royal Microscopical Society Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by The Royal Microscopical Society for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Transactional Reporting Service, provided that the stated fee of $10.50 per copy is paid directly to the CCC, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, U.S.A. Special requests should be addressed to the Editor. Journal of Microscopy 0022-2720/94 $10.50. Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 OEL, U.K. 25 John St., London WC1N 2BL, U.K. 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh EH3 6AJ, U.K. Suite 500, 5th Floor, 238 Main St., Boston, MA 02142, U.S.A. 54 University St., Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia Librairie Arnette SA, 2 rue Casimir-Delavigne, 75006 Paris, France Blackwell Wissenschaft-Verlag, Dusseldorfer Strasse 38, D-10707, Berlin, Germany Blackwell MZV, Feldgasse 13, A-1238 Vienna, Austria ISSN 0022-2720 Printed in Great Britain by the Alden Press, Oxford Blackwell Scientific Publications OXFORD LONDON EDINBURGH BOSTON MELBOURNE PARIS BERLIN VIENNA Contents Part 1 April 1994 S. M. ZEMYAN AND D. B. WILLIAMS. Standard performance criteria for analytical electron microscopy, 1 G. KAupP. Atomic force microscopy in the photochemistry of chalcones, 15 E. J. BREEN. Regression methods for automated colour image classification and thresholding, 23 P. GREMILLET, M. JOURLIN AND J.-C. PINOLI. LIP-model-based three-dimensional reconstruction and visualization of HIV-infected entire cells, 31 V. I. POPOV, A. A. NIKONOV, N. K. AGAFONOVA AND E. E. FESENKO. Surface ultrastructure of olfactory receptor sense hairs in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori and Antheraea pernyi, 39 E. FRITZ AND G. JENTSCHKE. Agar standards for quantitative X-ray micro- analysis of resin-embedded plant tissues, 47 Short technical notes C. NOGUES, M. MARTI, M. BOADA AND M. PONSA. A simple method for processing individual oocytes and embryos for electron microscopy, 51 W. A. FURDANOWICZ AND K. E. DOWNEY. Enhanced retention of magnetic particles (e.g. microtomed sections) in a TEM, 55 Book review, 59 Rapid publication M. B. SHATTUCK, M. G. GUSTAFSSON, K. A. FISHER, K. C. YANAGIMOTO, A. VEIS, R. S. BHATNAGAR AND J. CLARKE. Monometric collagen imaged by cryogenic force microscopy, RP1 Part 2 May 1994 w. 0. SAXTON. Accurate alignment of sets of images, 61 J. DEITCH, M. KEMPE AND W. RUDOLPH. Resolution in nonlinear laser scanning microscopy, 69 M. B. BRAUNFELD, A. J. KOSTER, J. W. SEDAT AND D. A. AGARD. Cryo automated electron tomography: towards high-resolution reconstructions of plastic- embedded structures, 75 P. WEBSTER AND G. GRIFFITHS. A novel method for mean cell volume estimation, 85 M. LADEKARL. The influence of tissue processing on quantitative histopathology in breast cancer, 93 Y. USSON, F. PARAZZA, P.-S. JOUK AND G. MICHALOWICZ. Method for the study of the three-dimensional orientation of the nuclei of myocardiai cells in fetal human heart by means of confocal scanning laser microscopy, 101 D. C. WALKER, S. HOSFORD AND A. MACKENZIE. A novel application of VOLUME CONTENTS iii microsphere perfusion and scanning electron microscopy to the identification of pulmonary arterioles in guinea-pig and rabbit lungs, 111 CHANG-GUI WANG, H. RAIKKONEN AND M. LUUKKALA. Astigmatism of a thick cylindrical object in reflective mode CSLM, 121 J. MOLLER, K. ROBERTSEN AND E. S. HANSEN. Severe shrinkage of Microfil during tissue clearing with the Spalteholz technique, 125 Book review, 129 Erratum, 130 Part 3 June 1994 Editorial, 131 G. BENNER AND W. PRoBST. KOhler illumination in the TEM: fundamentals and advantages, 133 P. HIRSCH AND L. REIMER. Influence of zero-loss filtering on electron optical phase contrast, 143 K.-H. KORTJE. Image-EELS: simultaneous recording of multiple electron energy-loss spectra from series of electron spectroscopic images, 149 E.S. GELSEMA, A. L. D. BECKERS AND W. C. DE BRUIJN. Optimal conditions for the use of correspondence analysis for element determination in EELS images, 161 A. L. D. BECKERS, W. C. DE BRUIJN, E. S. GELSEMA, M. I. CLETON-SOETEMAN AND H. G. VAN EIJK. Quantitative electron spectroscopic imaging in bio-medicine: methods for image acquisition, correction and analysis, 171 R. DOOR, K. D. HABERLE AND R. MARTIN. Effect of specimen thickness and carbon content on the carbon peak region in EEL spectra, 183 J-L. LAVERGNE, C. FOA, P. BONGRAND, D. SEUX AND J-M. MARTIN. Application of recording and processing of energy-filtered image sequences for the elemental mapping of biological specimens: Imaging-Spectrum, 195 H. FEHRENBACH, A. SCHMIEDL, F. BRASCH AND J. RICHTER. Evaluation of lanthanide tracer methods in the study of mammalian pulmonary parenchyma and cardiac muscle by electron energy-loss spectroscopy, 207 I. KOTTKE AND F. MARTIN. Demonstration of aluminium in polyphosphate of Laccaria amethystea (Bolt. ex Hooker) Murr. by means of electron energy-loss spectroscopy, 225 S. ABOLHASSANI-DADRAS, G. H. VAZQUEZ-NIN, 0. M. ECHEVERRIA, V. BOUTINARD ROUELLE-ROSSIER AND S. FAKAN. ESI in situ analyses of extrachromosomal RNP granules, 233 Book reviews, 239 Author index, 241 Key-word index, 242