X-ray Microscopy : Instrumentation and Biological Applications PDF
Edited by Ping-chin Cheng, Gwo-jen Jan
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In 1979, a conference on x-ray microscopy was organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 1983, the Second Interna- tional Symposium on X-ray Imaging was organized by the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
This volume contains the contributions to the symposium "X-ray Microscopy '86", held in Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China in August 1986.
This is the first volume which intends to provide up-to- date information on x-ray imaging to biologists, therefore, emphasis was given to specimen preparation techniques and image interpreta- tion.
Specimen preparation represents a major part of every microscopy work, therefore, it should be strongly emphasized in this emerging field of x-ray microscopy.
Theoretically, x-ray microscopy offers the potential for the study of unfixed, hydrated biological ma- terials.
Since very few biological system can be directly observed without specimen preparation, we would like to emphasize that new information on biological specimens can only be obtained if the speci- men is properly prepared.
In the past decade, many of the published x-ray images were obtained from poorly prepared biological speci- mens, mainly air-dried materials.
Therefore, one of the goals of this conference is to bring the importance of specimen preparation to the attention of x-ray microscopy community.
X-ray microscopy can be subdivided into several major areas.
They are the classic x-ray projection microscope, x-ray contact imag- ing (microradiography) and the more recent x-ray scanning micro- scope, x-ray photoelectron microscope and x-ray imaging microscope.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication Date:06/12/2012
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- ISBN:9783642728815