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Diverse applications of volume CLEM analysis in cell biology: brief overview, unique techniques and recent notable

Chieko Saito1

  • 1Laboratory for Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

Microscopy (Oxford, England)
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array tomographycorrelative light and electron microscopy (CLEM)focused ion beam SEM (FIB-SEM)scanning electron microscopy (SEM)serial block face SEM (SBF-SEM)volume electron microscopy (vEM)

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