Foreword

Yesterday, today and tomorrow of electron microscopy

Shigeo Horiuchi

79

Special Article

ICEM/IFSEM and APEM/CAPSEM

Makoto Shiojiri

80

Reviews

SEM studies on parietal cells

Takuro Ogata

83

Structure of photosensitizing dye nanosized crystals adsorbed on AgBr. by CL, SEM and AFM

Makoto Shiojiri

89

Feature Articles: High pressure feezing

High pressure freezing: past, present and future

Fusayoshi Murata

95

High pressure freezing/freeze substitution and its application onto histochemistry

Tatsuo Suganuma,
Akira Sawaguchi
and Shinichiro Tsuyama

99

High pressure freezing and freeze fracturing

Hiroyuki Sasaki and Kyoko Furuse

102

High pressure freezing in plant tissue

Yoshinobu Mineyuki,
Ichirou Karahara,
Takashi Murata,
Marisa Otegui,
Thomas H.Giddings
and L. Andrew Staehelin

105

New observation technique for SEM in yeast cells ?Development of a method of high pressure freezing in combination with ultra-low temperature SEM?

Masako Osumi

108

High pressure freezing of Dictyostelium discoideum spores

Masazumi Sameshima,
Yoshiro Kishi,
David A.Cotter and
Masako Osumi

111

Feature Articles: Auto-tuning methods for electron microscopes

Introduction

Norio Baba

114

Automatic tuning of TEM by means of diffractogram analysis

Fumio Hosokawa

115

Auto focusing of TEM using phase only correlation

Ruriko Tsuneta

118

Auto-tuning of TEM by the phase spectrum method

Norio Baba

121

Automation of SEM imaging functions

J.T.L. Thong,
J.C.H. Phang and
W.K. Wong

124

Lectures

SEM Histochemistry of lymphatic capillaries

Seiji Kato

127

Technical Notes

Scanning electron microscopy of ion-etched epoxy resin sections and its application to three-dimensional reconstruction

Toshikazu Nagato,
Yutaka Hisanaga,
Daizaburou Shimizu
and Takashi Fujiwara

131

TEM sample preparation technique for semiconductors using photochemical etching

Shigeyasu Tanaka

135

Researches Today

Biogenesis of yeast peroxisomes

Naomi Kamasawa
and Masako Osumi

138

The modulated structure of Bi₂Sr₂(Ca_1-xLn_x)Cu₂O_8+d and a substitutional effect on the modulated structure

Takashi Onozuka
and Komajiro Niizeki

141

Staff Commentary

Tatsuo Suganuma

145