Quantitative elemental imaging of octopus stylets using PIXE and the nuclear microprobe

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-72

  Doubleday, Zoë ^a   Belton, David ^b   Pecl, Gretta ^a   Semmens, Jayson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elements; Nuclear microprobe; Octopus; PIXE; Spatial distributions; Stylet

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCEAN HABITATS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

MICROPROBES; NUCLEAR MICROPROBES; OCTOPUS; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PROTON INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION (PIXE);

MARINE BIOLOGY;

EID: 37549072657     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.10.027     Document Type: Article

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