Micro-PIXE on thin plant tissue samples in frozen hydrated state: A novel addition to JSI nuclear microprobe

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

Volumn 306, Issue , 2013, Pages 140-143

  Vavpetic P ^a   Pelicon, P ^a   Vogel Mikus K ^b   Grlj, N ^a   Pongrac, P ^b   Jeromel, L ^a   Ogrinc, N ^a,c   Regvar, M ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c LOTRIČ Doo ^*  (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biology; Element quantification; Focused ion beam; Frozen hydrated tissue; Micro PIXE; RBS; STIM

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT QUANTIFICATION; HYDRATED TISSUES; MICRO-PIXE; RBS; STIM;

BIOLOGY; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; GONIOMETERS; LIQUID NITROGEN; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTON BEAMS; SILICON NITRIDE; TISSUE;

HYDRATION;

EID: 84879125924     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.12.035     Document Type: Article

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