In this application note, Hitachi engineers used EM Flow Creator to acquire 100 images of slurry SiO₂ abrasive at 100,000× in 53 minutes, then measured every particle automatically. Automation shouldn't stop at acquisition.
One hundred SEM images is a lot of data to measure by hand. Manual measurement introduces exactly the operator variability that automated acquisition removes. In this workflow, the images were passed to Image-Pro 10 (Media Cybernetics Inc.) for automated measurement. The software binarises each image, applies watershed processing to separate closely spaced particles that would otherwise be counted as one, and measures particle dimensions across the full dataset.