Direct tomography with chemical-bond contrast

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 489-493

  Huotari, Simo ^a,b   Pylkkänen, Tuomas ^a,b   Verbeni, Roberto ^a   Monaco, Giulio ^a   Hämäläinen, Keijo ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONTRAST MECHANISM; ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS; MACROSCOPIC LENGTH; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC TOMOGRAPHIES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

CHEMICAL BONDS;

CARBON; DIAMOND; GRAPHITE; OXYGEN; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYNCHROTRON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; CARBON; DIAMOND; GRAPHITE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OXYGEN; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959502307     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3031     Document Type: Article

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