X-ray Microscopy: Instrumentation and Biological Applications

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Introduction to X-ray Microscopy....Pages 1-12
Imaging Properties of the Soft X-ray Photon....Pages 13-31
Status of X-ray Microscopy Experiments at the BESSY Laboratory....Pages 32-38
Current Status of the Göttingen Scanning X-ray Microscope - Experiments at the BESSY Storage Ring....Pages 39-52
The Beginning of Scanning X-ray Microscopy at Daresbury....Pages 53-64
Recent Advances in Contact Imaging of Biological Materials....Pages 65-104
The Examination of Topographic Images in Resist Surfaces....Pages 105-125
The Shadow Projection Type of X-ray Microscope....Pages 126-141
The Application of Synchrotron Radiation to X-ray Imaging....Pages 142-161
Laser-produced Plasmas as Soft X-ray Sources....Pages 162-174
Single Shot Soft X-ray Contact Microscopy with Laboratory Laser Produced Plasmas....Pages 175-184
Soft X-ray Contact Imaging at CSRF....Pages 185-195
Brief Report on the Present Status of the SRRC....Pages 196-212
Diffraction-Imaging Possibilities with Soft X-rays....Pages 213-223
X-ray Microholography, Exciting Possibility or Impossible Dream?....Pages 224-230
Proposal for a Phase Contrast X-ray Microscope....Pages 231-238
Soft X-ray Microscope with Free-standing Zone Plates....Pages 239-246
Zone Plate Replication by Contact X-ray Lithography, and Its Application to Scanning X-ray Microscopy....Pages 247-253
A 10keV X-ray Microprobe with Grazing Incidence Mirrors....Pages 254-262
Feasibility Study for the Observation of Biological Materials in VUV Wavelength Regions. Using Zone Plates Fabricated by Electron and Ion Beam Lithographies....Pages 263-288
Sample Preparation for X-ray Imaging and Examples of Biological X-ray Images....Pages 289-310
Studies of Calcium Distribution in Bone by Scanning X-ray Microscopy....Pages 311-327
Soft X-ray Microradiography of Biological Specimens....Pages 328-335
A Simple Procedure for the Fabrication of Si 3 N 4 Windows....Pages 336-345
History of X-ray Microscopy....Pages 346-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-415