Helium Ion Microscopy (HIM) for the imaging of biological samples at sub-nanometer resolution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Joens, Matthew S ^a   Huynh, Chuong ^b   Kasuboski, James M ^b   Ferranti, David ^a   Sigal, Yury J ^c   Zeitvogel, Fabian ^c   Obst, Martin ^d   Burkhardt, Claus J ^a   Curran, Kevin P ^a   Chalasani, Sreekanth H ^b   Stern, Lewis A ^b   Goetze, Bernhard ^b   Fitzpatrick, James A J ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; ION;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIUM; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; NEMATODE; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA; HELA CELLS; HELIUM; HUMANS; IONS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEMATODA;

EID: 84890714832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03514     Document Type: Article

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