human body. In this context ceramography plays a very important role but needs to be associated by 
various types of molecular spectroscopy, protein analysis and cell growth tests. Both in in-vitro and 
in-vivo testing are judged using microscopic techniques assisted by image analyses. In medicine for 
instance, pathology is somewhat a counter science to materialography which is describing "human 
microstructure of tissue". Pathology uses microscopy and image analysis on sections of the tissue. In 
biology or biochemistry, microscopic techniques such as confocal laser fluorescence microscopy are 
also used in order to inspect the number of attached human cells on material surfaces [3]. The 
investigation of biological surfaces requires materialography but also the related techniques in 
biochemistry and pathology. 
The dimension of interest in ceramography are becoming smaller. The target preparation is Mate 
nowadays more or less a standard situation. Ceramoraphy needs to be combined with other types of se 
inspection (spectroscopy, pathology, morphometry, etc.) in order judge on the quality of material. Jeve 
Characteristic Loading 
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