Spectral restoration and energy resolution improvement of electron energy-loss spectra by Pixon reconstruction: I. Principle and test examples

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 215-223

  Muto, Shunsuke ^a   Puetter, Richard C ^b,c   Tatsumi, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Pixon LLC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital image processing; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Pixon method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DISPERSIONS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DISPERSION DIRECTION; ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTRA; ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROSCOPIES; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS; PERFORMANCE; PIXON METHOD; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; TEST EXAMPLES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33846211945     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfl028     Document Type: Article

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