Beam deceleration for block-face scanning electron microscopy of embedded biological tissue

Micron

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 612-620

  Ohta, Keisuke ^a   Sadayama, Shoji ^b,c   Togo, Akinobu ^d   Higashi, Ryuhei ^d   Tanoue, Ryuichiro ^a   Nakamura, Kei ichiro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam deceleration; Block face imaging; FIB SEM; Low voltage imaging; Mitochondria; SBFSEM

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BLOCK-FACE IMAGING; FIB/SEM; HEPATOCYTES; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; LOW ACCELERATING VOLTAGE; LOW BEAM; LOW-VOLTAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL CRISTAE; RAT HEPATOCYTES; SBFSEM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; WORKING DISTANCES;

HEADLIGHTS; MITOCHONDRIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER CELL; METHODOLOGY; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; HEPATOCYTES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 84858160800     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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