Fast Mapping Of Biological Samples With Large Area EDS Detectors
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Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) has been used for many years to analyse the chemical composition of materials, including biological matter. However, the physical limitations of often being able to use only low beam currents, low accelerating voltages and only generating very low X-Ray count rates on a sample mainly comprised of light elements meant that until now, biological EDS has been somewhat limited in its practical application.
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