Elemental mapping by electron energy loss spectroscopy in biology

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 950, Issue , 2013, Pages 209-226

  Aronova, Maria A ^a   Leapman, Richard D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

3D elemental map; Chromatin structure; EELS; EFTEM tomography; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Elemental mapping; Energy filtered transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELEMENT; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYMOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELEMENTS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHORUS; SPECTROSCOPY, ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THYMOCYTES;

EID: 84870517306     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-137-0_13     Document Type: Article

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