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    An X-ray microscope uses electromagnetic radiation in the X-ray band to produce magnified images of objects. Since X-rays penetrate most objects, there...
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    X-ray microscopes are instruments that use electromagnetic radiation usually in the soft X-ray band to image objects. Technological advances in X-ray...
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    prohibited the machines in 1989. The X-ray microscope was developed during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched on 23 July...
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  • He was born in Springfield, Missouri. Newberry invented the shadow X-ray microscope and was one of the founders of the Microscopy Society of America. He...
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  • X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, and X-ray...
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    the synchrotron X-ray flashes are the probe. X-ray microscopes work by exposing a film or charged coupled device detector to detect X-rays that pass through...
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    Microscopy (section X-ray)
    studied before sacrificing it to higher resolution techniques. A 3D X-ray microscope uses the technique of computed tomography (microCT), rotating the sample...
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  • An X-ray microscope uses electromagnetic radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce images of very small objects. Unlike visible light, X-rays do not...
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  • important contributions to the early development of X-ray microscopes, X-ray optics, and later X-ray telescopes. Albert Báez was born in Puebla, Mexico...
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    The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate...
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  • confocal white light microscope". Archived from the original on 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2013-08-14. Vincze L (2005). "Confocal X-ray Fluorescence Imaging...
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  • after Paul Kirkpatrick and Albert Baez, the inventors of the X-ray microscope. Although X-rays can be focused by compound refractive lenses, these also reduce...
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    X-ray crystallography is the experimental science of determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes...
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    University in 1950. Albert was later credited as a co-inventor of the X-ray microscope. Joan's cousin John C. Baez is a mathematical physicist. Her mother...
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    transparent to these X-rays, but carbon and its organic compounds are absorbing. These wavelengths could be used in an x-ray microscope for viewing living...
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    An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. It uses electron optics that are analogous to the glass...
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    prototype electron microscope in 1931. Henry Moseley was involved in the discovery of the direct relationship between the wavelength of X-rays and the identity...
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    scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM). X-ray beam excitation is used in X-ray fluorescence (XRF)...
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  • and crystal optics. During his studies he created an X-ray focusing mirror for the X-ray microscope. The resulting field of crystal topography is used in...
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    Baez's uncle Albert Baez was a physicist and a co-inventor of the X-ray microscope; Albert interested him in physics as a child. Through Albert, he is...
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    Typical X-ray detectors for electron microscopes cover only a small solid angle, which makes X-ray detection relatively inefficient since X-rays are emitted...
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    A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of...
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    X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by being bombarded...
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  • analysis, wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometry, electron microprobes, scanning electron microscopes, and high-precision experiments...
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    relatively transparent to X-rays and other forms of ionizing radiation; therefore, it is the most common window material for X-ray equipment and components...
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  • CCD array. Electron microscope ISIS neutron and muon source LARMOR neutron microscope Microscope image processing X-ray microscope "What shall we do with...
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    acoustic microscope Scanning probe microscope Atomic force microscope (AFM) Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) Focus variation X-ray microscope (See also...
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    particles such as electrons (in an electron microscope for example), protons (see PIXE) or a beam of X-rays (see X-ray fluorescence, or XRF or also recently...
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    construction and commissioning of a soft x-ray microscope to be used for biological imaging Her research primarily focuses on X-ray microtomography, a technology...
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  • In radiography, X-ray microtomography uses X-rays to create cross-sections of a physical object that can be used to recreate a virtual model (3D model)...
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