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Electron and x-ray microscopes allow one to image the entire, unlabeled structure of hydrated materials at a resolution well beyond what visible light microscopes can achieve. However, both approaches involve ionizing radiation, so that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Ming Du , Chris Jacobsen

To study the fundamental physics of complex multiphase flow systems using advanced measurement techniques, especially the electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) approach, this article carries out an initial literature review of the ECT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Kezhi Li

A technique of pulsed low-energy electron holography is introduced that allows for recording highly resolved holograms within reduced exposure times. Therefore, stacks of holograms are accumulated in a pulsed mode with individual…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-27 Matthias Germann , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

Much of the exotic functionality of prime interest in quantum materials emerges from structural and electronic ground states that can only be accessed at cryogenic temperatures. Understanding device operation therefore requires structural…

Transmission electron diffraction is a powerful and versatile structural probe for the characterization of a broad range of materials, from nanocrystalline thin films to single crystals. With recent developments in fast electron detectors…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-06 Jian-Min Zuo , Renliang Yuan , Yu-Tsun Shao , Haw-Wen Hsiao , Saran Pidaparthy , Yang Hu , Qun Yang , Jiong Zhang

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a cornerstone of structural biology, enabling near-atomic resolution analysis of macromolecules through advanced computational methods. However, the development of cryo-EM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runmin Jiang , Genpei Zhang , Yuntian Yang , Siqi Wu , Minhao Wu , Wanyue Feng , Yizhou Zhao , Xi Xiao , Xiao Wang , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Muyuan Chen , Min Xu

This paper reviews opportunities for using electron microscopy in various gas atmospheres for the analysis and morpho-physiological modification of biological structures. The approaches that allow varying the gaseous phase content, as well…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-02 O. V. Gradov , M. A. Gradova

We propose a method to reconstruct the 3-D molecular structure from micrographs collected at just one sample tilt angle in the random conical tilt scheme in cryo-electron microscopy. Our method uses autocorrelation analysis on the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-12 Ti-Yen Lan , Nicolas Boumal , Amit Singer

The field of cryo-electron microscopy has made astounding advancements in the past few years, mainly due to advancements in electron detectors' technology. Yet, one of the key open challenges of the field remains the processing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Yariv Aizenbud , Yoel Shkolnisky

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) emerges as a pivotal technology for determining the architecture of cells, viruses, and protein assemblies at near-atomic resolution. Traditional particle picking, a key step in cryo-EM, struggles with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-17 Chentianye Xu , Xueying Zhan , Min Xu

Single particle cryo-electron microscopy is a vital tool for 3D characterization of protein structures. A typical workflow involves acquiring projection images of a collection of randomly oriented particles, picking and classifying…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Puneet Juneja , Hugh O'Neill

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an experimental technique for protein structure determination that images an ensemble of macromolecules in near-physiological contexts. While recent advances enable the reconstruction of dynamic…

This publication presents an investigation of the performance of different analytical electron ptychography methods for low-dose imaging. In particular, benchmarking is performed for two model-objects, monolayer MoS$_2$ and apoferritin, by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert , Max Leo Leidl , Knut Müller-Caspary , Jo Verbeeck

Electron tomography is a technique used in both materials science and structural biology to image features well below optical resolution limit. In this work, we present a new algorithm for reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 David Ren , Michael Chen , Laura Waller , Colin Ophus

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a tool of fundamental importance in structural biology, helping us understand the basic building blocks of life. The algorithmic challenge of cryo-EM is to jointly estimate the unknown 3D poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Axel Levy , Frédéric Poitevin , Julien Martel , Youssef Nashed , Ariana Peck , Nina Miolane , Daniel Ratner , Mike Dunne , Gordon Wetzstein

This study investigates the convergence properties of a collection of iterative electron ptychography methods, under low electron doses ($<$ 10$^3$ $e^-/A^2$) and gives particular attention to the impact of the user-defined update…

Ptychography is now integrated as a tool in mainstream microscopy allowing quantitative and high-resolution imaging capabilities over a wide field of view. However, its ultimate performance is inevitably limited by the available coherent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Wenhui Xu , Shoucong Ning , Pengju Sheng , Huixiang Lin , Angus I Kirkland , Yong Peng , Fucai Zhang

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides images from different copies of the same biomolecule in arbitrary orientations. Here, we present an end-to-end unsupervised approach that learns individual particle orientations from cryo-EM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Youssef S. G. Nashed , Frederic Poitevin , Harshit Gupta , Geoffrey Woollard , Michael Kagan , Chuck Yoon , Daniel Ratner

A detailed analysis of ptychography for 3D phase reconstructions of thick specimens is performed. We introduce multi-focus ptychography, which incorporates a 4D-STEM defocus series to enhance the quality of 3D reconstructions along the beam…

The role and importance of mechanical properties of cells and tissues in cellular function, development as well as disease has widely been acknowledged, however standard techniques currently used to assess them exhibit intrinsic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Robert Prevedel , Alba Diz-Muñoz , Giancarlo Ruocco , Giuseppe Antonacci