More Imge Stitching

As you'll remember, yesterday I posted a guppy eye that had been pieced together from many images into one large image. Here is a more recent example of image stitching. This is a cell (provided by Nicholas Manel of the Littman lab at the NYUMC Skirball Institute) that I took several images of with an electron microscope. You really have to click this one to see all the good stuff:


In this project we were counting HIV viruses. The small dark dots surrounding the cell are the viruses. Notice, some of them are budding from the surface of the cell membrane. The light blob with the double membrane and dark border is the nucleus of the cell. The small round dark gray objects are called mitochondria (there are two at about 1:30 relative to the nucleus), and in about the center of the image there is a beautiful example of a golgi (about 5:00 from the nucleus).
These images taken on a Philips CM-12 Transmission Electron Microscope and were stitched together in Photoshop (I didn't have to spend a long time doing it manually this time). Again, the image size was reduced for the web.