Sixteen nanometres in 3D
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 09:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Tomography enables the interior of a vast range of objects to be depicted in 3D – from cellular structures to technical appliances. Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) have now devised a method that opens up new scales of tomographic imaging and will thus make the detailed study of representative volumes of biological tissue and materials science specimens possible in future. Until now, the relevant details on a scale of a few nanometres were only visible with methods that required very thin samples.