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High Resolution 3D Imaging of Ex-Vivo Biological Samples by Micro CT
Published on: June 21, 2011
Multispectral computed-tomography microscope for 3-D material analysis
Applied Optics
|June 22, 2010
Abstract:
Three-dimensional density distributions of individual materials observed microscopically are separately reconstructed by combining multispectral image processing and optical microscope tomography (which was previously developed by the authors). Microscope optics, numerical methods, and an experimental apparatus are shown. Experimental results, using biological samples, are presented.
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