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ArticleJournal of microscopy2025

Contrast by electron microscopy in thick biological specimens.

Peter Rez, Lothar Houben, Shahar Seifer, Michael Elbaum

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Article in Journal of microscopy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Electrons and X-rays for diffraction and imaging.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2026
    Review
  3. Damage-limited resolution for X-ray and electron microscopy of organic specimens.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Peter RezDepartment of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Lothar HoubenChemical Research Support Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Shahar SeiferDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Michael ElbaumDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The contributions of coherent bright-field phase and incoherent dark-field amplitude contrast are investigated for thick biological specimens. A model for a T4 phage is constructed and images simulated for both TEM and STEM phase contrast using a multislice code. For TEM, the fraction of the illumination intensity available for phase contrast imaging is limited by the fraction of electrons in the zero loss peak, the plasmon peak, or the Landau distribution peak for very thick specimens. These were measured from electron energy loss spectra recorded from various thicknesses of vitreous ice. The incoherent amplitude contrast is simulated using the Penelope Monte Carlo code. Noise limits the features that can be distinguished under the low-dose conditions required for cryo-EM, even for high electron exposures of 100 electrons/Å

Indexed as

Bacteriophage T4Microscopy, Electron, TransmissionImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopy, Phase-Contrastcryo‐electron microscopyEELSenergy loss imagingMonte Carlo simulationmultislice simulationSTEMTEM

Identifiers

PMID40857101
PMCPMC12637017

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