Iodine vapor staining for atomic number contrast in backscattered electron and X-ray imaging

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1044-1051

  Boyde, Alan ^a   Mccorkell, Fergus A ^b   Taylor, Graham K ^b   Bomphrey, Richard J ^c   Doube, Michael ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Desublimation; Histology; MicroCT; Segmentation; SEM; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BACKSCATTERING; BOTTLES; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IODINE; RUTHERFORD BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE;

ATOMIC NUMBER CONTRAST; ATTENUATION; BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; DESUBLIMATION; IODINE VAPOR; MICRO CT; SEGMENTATION; SOFT TISSUE; STRONG CONTRAST; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

HISTOLOGY;

ORTHOPTERA;

IODINE;

ANIMAL; CAELIFERA; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; GRASSHOPPERS; HUMANS; IODINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RATS; STAINING AND LABELING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84939266469     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.22435     Document Type: Article

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