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Convolutional Neural Network for Quantitative Analysis of Cell Organelles

High-brilliance X-Rays from BESSY II can be utilized to create microscopic images with a spatial resolution of as little as a few tens of nanometers. Without the complicated sample preparation required for electron microscopy, whole cell volumes can be analyzed.

19 Jul 2023

Using High-Energy X-Rays to Image Biological Specimens Without Damage

A pollen grain showing the nanofoam within or a diatom with the individual geometric structures inside clearly visible: Using high-energy X-rays from the PETRA III synchrotron light source at DESY, a team led by CFEL scientists Saša Bajt and Henry Chapman has managed to image these structures without damaging them.

31 May 2023

Researchers set a new record in X-ray microscopy

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and other institutions in Paris, Hamburg and Basel, have succeeded in setting a new record in X-ray microscopy.

14 Dec 2020