<title>Networking of an electron microscope laboratory internally and to the internet</title>

Abstract

As the networking of computers becomes more ubiquitous the need to connect imaging instruments to such networks becomes a matter of greater importance. The proliferation of personal workstations with graphics capabilities in particular is putting image processing power into the hands of an increasingly large number of researchers. By connecting image acquisition systems to a local or wide area network, image data, which once could only be analyzed in the lab in which the imaging instrumentation was situated, may now be accessed in any lab equipped with appropriate image processing software and hardware; for example, image data may be remotely accessed from many modem state-of-the-art telescopic observatories.