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Digital processing methods for structural analysis of an electron micrograph.

K Kanaya·N Baba·M Shino·T Ichijo·M Osumi·R W Horne
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Digital processing method using the scanning-densitometer with microcomputer provides a useful description system. It draws attention to the usefulness of local lattice averaging in clarifying images of periodic structures in crystals as well as crystalloids and para crystalline arrays in biological specimens. Digital processing of lattice images in crystal structures from the selected diffraction spots is successfully developed to the structural analysis of evaporated gold, graphitized carbon and human tooth enamel of hydroxyapatite. Furthermore, known microbody crystalloids in enzyme and icosahedral capsids in virus are confirmed and clarified by the procedure of selecting diffraction spectra transformed from the information taken with high resolution electron micrographs. The processed results can provide significant improvements in structural analysis of an electron micrograph.

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K Kanaya, N Baba, M Shino, T Ichijo, M Osumi, R W Horne. 1982. Digital processing methods for structural analysis of an electron micrograph.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6892169/

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