Patent ID: 6357285
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: G01Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A method comprising:(A) providing a biological structure; (B) scanning the biological structure with a local sensitive force detector; (C) acquiring data from two axes of the biological structure at a plurality of scan positions along a third axis of the biological structure; and (D) quantifying the data from the two axes of the biological structure as a function of scan position along the third axis of the biological structure; (E) plotting the quantified data on a first axis of a two-dimensional plot; and (F) plotting scan position along the third axis of the biological structure on a second axis of the two-dimensional plot; wherein the two-dimensional plot comprises a differential comparison, wherein the differential comparison plots the quantified data from an unknown biological structure using a characteristic that permits differentiation from the quantified data from a known biological structure.