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Compositional Imaging Rediscovered: What‚s New/What‚S Not?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

M. S. Isaacson
M. S. Isaacson*
Affiliation:
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853 and Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143
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The last several decades have seen an explosion in the number of experimental techniques being developed to characterize materials. In particular, there has been exponential growth in the coupling of microscopic methods with conventional spectroscopic characterization tools. This has been due mainly to the renaissance in microscopy over the last quarter century and the advent of significant computational power “on a bench”.

Compositional imaging is just a new term for what was over a half century ago called “Chemical Microscopy”. Although then the term referred to optical microscopy, today the notion of compositional imaging refers to a method by which we can correlate chemical or elemental composition with a microscopic image feature.

Because many of these microcharacterization methods have developed from many different disciplines, the “local” language used often appears to be untranslatable from one technique to the next without considerable pain and difficulty.

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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. 120 - 121
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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1.Chamot, E.M., Elementary Chemical Microscopy (John Wiley and Sons, New York) 1915.Google Scholar
2. The author would like to thank the organizers of this symposium (PI and PC) for giving me the opportunity to tie some of these ideas together and for being patient - since I am always late.Google Scholar