In situ observation of cellular organelles with a contact x-ray microscope

Observation of biological specimens using soft X-ray microscope

Biological specimens were observed using a soft X-ray microscope constructed at the Ritsumeikan synchrotron radiation center BL12. The spatial resolution of the microscope using an X-ray wavelength of 2.4nm was estimated to be 75nm from the edge response. Three kinds of diatoms were observed and ultrastructures of approximately 100nm could be clearly resolved. Two kinds of bacteria and red bloo...

Contrast with a 3D X-ray Microscope

A High-resolution X-ray Microscope

92 LLE Review, Volume 74 A soft x-ray microscope (E & 3 keV) with high spatial resolution (~3 μm) has been characterized at LLE and used for initial experiments on the OMEGA laser system to study the hydrodynamic stability of directly driven planar foils. The microscope, which is an optimized Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB)–type design, is used to obtain four x-ray radiographs of laser-driven foils. Time...

A Framed Monochromatic X-ray Microscope

Detector Crystal The Laser Fusion Experiments Groups from the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have jointly developed an instrument capable of simultaneously space-, time-, and spectrally resolving x-ray emission from inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets. Uses of the instrument include framed imaging of line emission from fuel or shell dop...

Three-Dimensional X-ray Observation of Atmospheric Biological Samples by Linear-Array Scanning-Electron Generation X-ray Microscope System

Recently, we developed a soft X-ray microscope called the scanning-electron generation X-ray microscope (SGXM), which consists of a simple X-ray detection system that detects X-rays emitted from the interaction between a scanning electron beam (EB) and the thin film of the sample mount. We present herein a three-dimensional (3D) X-ray detection system that is based on the SGXM technology and de...