Reconstruction and visualization of nanoparticle composites by transmission electron tomography

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2012, Pages 96-105

  Wang, X Y ^a,b   Lockwood, R ^a   Malac, M ^a,b   Furukawa, H ^c   Li, P ^a   Meldrum, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c System in Frontier Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Filtered back projection; Nanocomposites; Nanocrystals; Reconstruction; Scanning transmission electron microscope; Segmentation; Simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique; Thresholding; Tomography; Transmission electron microscopy; Transmission electron tomography; Volumetric measurements

Indexed keywords

FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SIMULTANEOUS ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; THRESHOLDING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

VISUALIZATION;

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOM; SIMULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84862799552     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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