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ArticleIUCrJ2020

Neutron sub-micrometre tomography from scattering data.

B Heacock, D Sarenac, D G Cory, M G Huber, J P W MacLean, H Miao, H Wen, D A Pushin

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Article in IUCrJ, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

B HeacockDepartment of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3478-7935
D SarenacInstitute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.
D G CoryInstitute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.
M G HuberNational Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
J P W MacLeanInstitute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.
H MiaoBiophysics and Biochemistry Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
H WenBiophysics and Biochemistry Center, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
D A PushinInstitute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutrons are valuable probes for various material samples across many areas of research. Neutron imaging typically has a spatial resolution of larger than 20 µm, whereas neutron scattering is sensitive to smaller features but does not provide a real-space image of the sample. A computed-tomography technique is demonstrated that uses neutron-scattering data to generate an image of a periodic sample with a spatial resolution of ∼300 nm. The achieved resolution is over an order of magnitude smaller than the resolution of other forms of neutron tomography. This method consists of measuring neutron diffraction using a double-crystal diffractometer as a function of sample rotation and then using a phase-retrieval algorithm followed by tomographic reconstruction to generate a map of the sample's scattering-length density. Topological features found in the reconstructions are confirmed with scanning electron micrographs. This technique should be applicable to any sample that generates clear neutron-diffraction patterns, including nanofabricated samples, biological membranes and magnetic materials, such as skyrmion lattices.

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computed tomographynanosciencenanostructuresneutron diffractionneutron scatteringphase retrieval

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PMID32939281
PMCPMC7467166

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