Morphological analyses of minute crystals by using stereo-photogrammetric scanning electron microscopy and electron back-scattered diffraction

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 358-365

  Kameda, Jun ^a   Inoguchi, Ryoichi ^a   Prior, David J ^b   Kogure, Toshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boehmite; Crystal morphology; EBSD; SEM; Stereo photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CORUNDUM; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRONS; FELDSPAR; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

BOEHMITE; CRYSTAL FACETS; CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES; EBSD; ELECTRON BACK-SCATTERED DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE IMAGES; FACETED CRYSTALS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRONS; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRIC SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549086089     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2007.01854.x     Document Type: Article

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