Analysis of spatial cross-correlations in multi-constituent volume data

A Rack1, L Helfen, T Baumbach

  • 1Hahn-Meitner Institute/Helmholtz Centre Berlin, Department Materials, Germany. arack@snafu.de

Journal of Microscopy
|November 20, 2008
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