Abstract
Forensic science incorporates many different scientific disciplines: criminalistics, toxicology, pathology, entomology, engineering, psychology, accounting, etc. Criminalistics incorporates such diverse areas as crime scene investigation, sexual assault evidence, DNA analysis, firearms identification and comparison, drug analysis, impression evidence, and trace evidence.A variety of microscopes and microscopical techniques are used to answer “real world” questions about physical evidence in criminalistics. The microscopes most often used include stereo (dissecting), biological (brightfield), polarizing light, phase contrast, fluorescence, transmitted light comparison, reflected light comparison, and scanning electron. Additionally, detectors from different areas of the electromagnetic spectrum have been added to microscopes to enhance the information obtained from a specimen: infrared, visible-ultraviolet, and x-ray. to gather more information about the specimen with visible light microscopes, dispersion staining(1), contrast enhancement techniques(2) fusion methods(3), chemical staining(4), and micro-chemical tests(5,6) can be integrated into the analytical scheme.
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