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Interdisciplinary Development of Eels Compositional Mapping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

R.D. Leapman
R.D. Leapman*
Affiliation:
Biomedical Engineering & Instrumentation Program, DIRS, ORS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892
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Historically, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the electron microscope has evolved from work performed in biological as well as materials science and physics laboratories. The task of developing EELS compositional imaging for biological applications has been particularly challenging for two reasons. First, biological structures are radiation-sensitive and second, elements and compounds of interest are distributed sparsely in a multi-component matrix. For example, the physiologically important element, calcium, is typically present in cells at only 10-100 atomic parts per million.3,5 Even, when individual molecular components of a cell are isolated, elemental concentrations can still be low. Thus, double-stranded DNA contains only six phosphorus atoms per nanometer of its length; and protein molecules typically contain less than 0.5 per cent sulfur. This demand for high sensitivity in biological applications has provided an impetus to improve electron optics, to develop flexible image acquisition methods and to optimize spectral processing.

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Compositional Mapping With High Spatial Resolution
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 4 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, Microscopy Society of America 56th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia July 12-16, 1998 , July 1998 , pp. 122 - 123
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