X-ray Microscopy -

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Résumé :
This book provides an up-to-date reference for biologists. Virtually all manners of x-ray microscopy, e.g. shadow projection x-ray microscopy, x-ray contact imaging, scanning x-ray microscopy, and imaging x-ray microscopy, as well as related subjects such as diffraction imaging, microholography, various x-ray sources, and focusing elements are extensively discussed. For illustration, numerous biological x-ray micrographs, obtained by different imaging techniques, are included in a small atlas. This reference book concludes with an extensive bibliography on x-ray microscopy, insuring its usefulness for all scientists intending to apply this new and powerful tool to their research.

Sommaire:
1. Introduction to X-ray Microscopy.- 2. Imaging Properties of the Soft X-ray Photon.- 3. Status of X-ray Microscopy Experiments at the BESSY Laboratory.- 4. Current Status of the G?ttingen Scanning X-ray Microscope - Experiments at the BESSY Storage Ring.- 5. The Beginning of Scanning X-ray Microscopy at Daresbury.- 6. Recent Advances in Contact Imaging of Biological Materials.- 7. The Examination of Topographic Images in Resist Surfaces.- 8. The Shadow Projection Type of X-ray Microscope.- 9. The Application of Synchrotron Radiation to X-ray Imaging.- 10. Laser-produced Plasmas as Soft X-ray Sources.- 11. Single Shot Soft X-ray Contact Microscopy with Laboratory Laser Produced Plasmas.- 12. Soft X-ray Contact Imaging at CSRF.- 13. Brief Report on the Present Status of the SRRC.- 14. Diffraction-Imaging Possibilities with Soft X-rays.- 15. X-ray Microholography - Exciting Possibility or Impossible Dream?.- 16. Proposal for a Phase Contrast X-ray Microscope.- 17. Soft X-ray Microscope with Free-standing Zone Plates.- 18. Zone Plate Replication by Contact X-ray Lithography, and Its Application to Scanning X-ray Microscopy.- 19. A 10 keV X-ray Microprobe with Grazing Incidence Mirrors.- 20. Feasibility Study for the Observation of Biological Materials in VUV Wavelength Regions. Using Zone Plates Fabricated by Electron and Ion Beam Lithographies.- 21. Sample Preparation for X-ray Imaging and Examples of Biological X-ray Images.- 22. Studies of Calcium Distribution in Bone by Scanning X-ray Microscopy.- 23. Soft X-ray Microradiography of Biological Specimens.- 24. A Simple Procedure for the Fabrication of Si3N4 Windows.- 25. History of X-ray Microscopy.- Mini Atlas of Biological Images.