Multiscale 3D virtual dissections of 100-million-year-old flowers using X-ray synchrotron micro- and nanotomography

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 305-312

  Moreau, Jean David ^a,b   Cloetens, Peter ^b   Gomez, Bernard ^c   Daviero Gomez, Véronique ^c   Néraudeau, Didier ^a   Lafford, Tamzin A ^b   Tafforeau, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Flowers; Fossil plants; Microtomography; Multiscale approach; Nanotomography; Propagation phase contrast tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FLOWER; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; SYNCHROTRON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

FLOWERS; FOSSILS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84896491894     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927613014025     Document Type: Article

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