Written by Michael Krochmal
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 21:56 |
Anti-vibration tables serve to isolate the microscope and its
associated components from external vibrations which can be caused by
many sources, ranging from adjacent public transport to building
oscillations caused by air-conditioning plant. At the extreme
magnifications commonly employed in Fission Track Dating (x1000), such
vibrations are quite evident, and can cause severe deformations of the
captured video image, thus rendering the resultant image analysis
irrelevant.
Anti-vibration arrangements range through a whole spectrum of
complexity, effectiveness and cost, all the way from the simple granite
slab/inner tube design we present here, to expensive high-technology
"dynamic" anti-vibration tables which continuously cancel out
vibrations which vary with time. Please click on the submenu for the
appropriate model of interest.
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