■Foreword

Justice Research

Jiro Usukura

■Feature Articles: Frontiers of Serial Slice SEM in BioMedical Research

Frontiers of Serial Slice SEM in Biomedical Research

Kazuyoshi Murata

Advantages of FIB/SEM Tomography in SEM-Based Three-Dimensional Reconstruction

Keisuke Ohta, Tomonoshin Kanazawa and Kei-ichiro Nakamura

Application and Tissue Preparation of SBF-SEM for 3D Ultrastructural Analyses of Biological Specimens

Nobuhiko Ohno, Sei Saitoh, Yurika Saitoh and Shinichi Ohno

Serial Section Scanning Electron Microscopy and Its Application for the Morphological Analysis of the Golgi Apparatus

Daisuke Koga, Satoshi Kusumi and Tatsuo Ushiki

Automated Tape-Collecting System Ultra-Microtome (ATUM) for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Biological Tissue

Hirohide Iwasaki

■Reviews

Crystal Structures of Long-Period Stacking Ordered Phase in the Mg-TM-RE System

Kyosuke Kishida and Haruyuki Inui

History and Future Directions of Tract-Tracing Techniques

Yasushi Kobayashi

Mitochondrial Network-Structures Visualized with Scanning Electron Microscopy

Tomonori Naguro, Hironobu Nakane, Sumire Inaga, Toshio Kameie and Toshiyuki Kaidoh

■Lectures

PALM, Superresolution Fluorescence Microscopy Circumventing the Diffraction Limit of Light, to Explore Minute Structures of Cells

Susana Rocha, Herlinde De Keersmaecker, Mitsuhiro Abe, Hiroshi Uji-i, Johan Hofkens, Toshihide Kobayashi, Atsushi Miyawaki and Hideaki Mizuno

Electron Microscopic Analysis of Rice Seed

Takehiro Masumura, Ai Sasou and Yuhi Saito

Depth-Resolution Imaging of Three-Dimensional Nano Structures Using Aberration-Corrected TEM

Jun Yamasaki

■Researches Today

Analysis of Neuronal Circuit Network by Using Synchrotron Radiation at SPring-8

Ryuta Mizutani, Rino Saiga, Akihisa Takeuchi, Kentaro Uesugi, Yasuko Terada and Yoshio Suzuki

Strain Analysis Using STEM Moiré Method

Yukihito Kondo and Noriaki Endo

■From Microscopy: Editor’s Choice Articles

■Conference Reports

The 18th IMC and IFSM School Report

Hideki Masuda

Report on the IMC18 and IFSM School

Chisato Takahashi

■Staff Commentary

Kazuyoshi Murata