Bromage T G
Scanning Microsc. 1987 Jun;1(2):607-13.
The SEM/replica technique employs high resolution replica materials in order to reflect microstructural details of specimens, such as fossil bones, which cannot be observed directly. The described technique is simple, provides excellent resolution, is maximally adaptable to field and laboratory settings, and is applicable to large and topographically complex bone surfaces. The advent of the technique has made it largely possible to address certain issues in anthropology and paleontology. These contributions have principally been concerned with taphonomy as the study of the bone damage process, and bone biology as it relates to bone growth remodeling processes characterizing the facial growth of our early fossil hominid ancestors.
扫描电子显微镜/复型技术采用高分辨率复型材料，以反映无法直接观察的标本（如化石骨骼）的微观结构细节。所描述的技术简单，分辨率极佳，最大程度适用于野外和实验室环境，且适用于大型和地形复杂的骨表面。该技术的出现很大程度上使得解决人类学和古生物学中的某些问题成为可能。这些贡献主要涉及作为骨损伤过程研究的埋藏学，以及与表征我们早期化石人类祖先面部生长的骨生长重塑过程相关的骨生物学。
