Darkfield Live Blood Showing Poikilocytes (Deformed RBCs), Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing a White Blood Cell on the Move (Center), Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing Poikilocytes Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing Poikilocytes Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 40x Objective                     Darkfield Live Blood Showing an Eosinophil (WBC) Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing Normal and Deformed RBCs Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing a Crystal and a Neutrophil Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing a Crystal and a Neutrophil Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective                     Darkfield Live Blood Showing Poikilocytes and Spicules (Fibrin). Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing a Plaque Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing a Plaque Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Showing a Normal RBCs Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective                     Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing a Rouleau Formation of the RBCs Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing an Artifact Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing an Artifact Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing a Colloid Symplast Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective                     Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing Echinocytes and Sludge Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing a Rouleau Formation of the RBCs Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 100x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing a Symplast Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 50x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing Target Cells, Macrocytes, and Echinocytes Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 50x Objective                       Darkfield Live Blood Sample Target Cells and Protein Linkages Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 50x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Target Cells and Protein Linkages Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 50x Objective   Darkfield Live Blood Sample Showing Target Cells, Macrocytes, and Echinocytes Photo Taken Through Trinocular Port using 50x Objective

Darkfield microscopy imaging techniques provide a method to view features in blood not normally shown with phase contrast and brightfield illumination. This method illuminates the specimen from the side, not from behind, so the background is black. Minute features of the blood are shown in a glowing light as it reflects off their surfaces. In live blood cell analysis, darkfield microscopy is best used to understand and view the cause of improper nutrition and problems in the body. Some evaluations are done solely using phase contrast or even using only brightfield, but they are missing a whole spectrum of enlightning information that can only be viewed in true darkfield.

Darkfield microscopy imaging techniques provide a method to view features in blood not normally shown with phase contrast and brightfield illumination. This method illuminates the specimen from the side, not from behind, so the background is black. Minute features of the blood are shown in a glowing light as it reflects off their surfaces.

In live blood cell analysis, darkfield microscopy is best used to understand and view the cause of improper nutrition and problems in the body. Some evaluations are done solely using phase contrast or even using only brightfield, but they are missing a whole spectrum of enlightning information that can only be viewed in true darkfield.