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ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2015

Electron Tomography: A Three-Dimensional Analytic Tool for Hard and Soft Materials Research.

Peter Ercius, Osama Alaidi, Matthew J Rames, Gang Ren

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Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
59citing papers in PubMed
17.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 213 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter ErciusLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Osama AlaidiLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Matthew J RamesLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Gang RenLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · US

Funding

Structure-Function Relationship Studies of the Plasma Lipid Transfer Proteins CETP and PLTPR01HL115153 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI REN, GANG · 2012 to 2021
$3.9M
Lipoprotein Structure and Function by Individual Particle Electron TomographyR01GM104427 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI REN, GANG · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL115153NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL115153NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104427NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM104427
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) structural analysis is essential to understand the relationship between the structure and function of an object. Many analytical techniques, such as X-ray diffraction, neutron spectroscopy, and electron microscopy imaging, are used to provide structural information. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), one of the most popular analytic tools, has been widely used for structural analysis in both physical and biological sciences for many decades, in which 3D objects are projected into two-dimensional (2D) images. In many cases, 2D-projection images are insufficient to understand the relationship between the 3D structure and the function of nanoscale objects. Electron tomography (ET) is a technique that retrieves 3D structural information from a tilt series of 2D projections, and is gradually becoming a mature technology with sub-nanometer resolution. Distinct methods to overcome sample-based limitations have been separately developed in both physical and biological science, although they share some basic concepts of ET. This review discusses the common basis for 3D characterization, and specifies difficulties and solutions regarding both hard and soft materials research. It is hoped that novel solutions based on current state-of-the-art techniques for advanced applications in hybrid matter systems can be motivated.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsBiocompatible MaterialsElectron Microscope TomographyImaging, Three-DimensionalNanostructuresBiocompatible Materialselectron tomographySTEMthree-dimensional structural analysistransmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Identifiers

PMID26087941
PMCPMC4710474
OpenAlexW2129906827

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