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Fresnel fringes (medicine)


Fresnel fringes
<microscopy> A class of diffraction fringes formed when the source of illumination and viewing screen are at a finite distance from a diffracting edge.

In the electron microscope these fringes are best seen when the object is slightly out of focus.