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Fast frame-rates are desirable in scanning transmission electron microscopy for a number of reasons: controlling electron beam dose, capturing in-situ events or reducing the appearance of scan distortions. Whilst several strategies exist…

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Deep learning methods for super-resolution of a remote sensing scene from multiple unregistered low-resolution images have recently gained attention thanks to a challenge proposed by the European Space Agency. This paper presents an…

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Atomic norm methods have recently been proposed for spectral super-resolution with flexibility in dealing with missing data and miscellaneous noises. A notorious drawback of these convex optimization methods however is their lower…

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Comprehensive, synapse-resolution imaging of the brain will be crucial for understanding neuronal computations and function. In connectomics, this has been the sole purview of volume electron microscopy (EM), which entails an excruciatingly…

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Spatial resolution of medical images can be improved using super-resolution methods. Real Enhanced Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Network (Real-ESRGAN) is one of the recent effective approaches utilized to produce higher resolution…

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Ever increasing hardware capabilities and computation powers have made acquisition and analysis of big scientific data at the nanoscale routine, though much of the data acquired often turns out to be redundant, noisy, and/or irrelevant to…

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Traditional image acquisition for cryo focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy tomography often sees thousands of images being captured over a period of many hours, with immense data sets being produced. When imaging beam sensitive…

Modern electron tomography has progressed to higher resolution at lower doses by leveraging compressed sensing methods that minimize total variation (TV). However, these sparsity-emphasized reconstruction algorithms introduce tunable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 William Millsaps , Jonathan Schwartz , Zichao Wendy Di , Yi Jiang , Robert Hovden

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation.…

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The use of electron mirrors in aberration correction and surface-sensitive microscopy techniques such as low-energy electron microscopy has been established. However, in this work, by implementing an easy to construct, fully electrostatic…

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