Foreword

Quantitative Electron-Microscopy

Michio Kiritani

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Review - Seto Award 2001

Development of ultrahigh resolution and ultrahigh vacuum electron microscope with new function

Yukihito Kondo

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Feature Articles: Elemental Mapping, The state of the art and prospects

Introduction

Yutaka Futaesaku, Seiji Isoda

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Elemental mapping: Introduction

Hiroki Kurata

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Recent instrumentation and future perspective

Kazutoshi Kaji and Shigeto Isakozawa

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Recent applications of energy-filtering TEM

Koji Kimoto

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Elemental analysis of grain boundaries in heat-resisting Cr steel

Masashi Watanabe and Yoshitsugu Tomokiyo

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Elemental mapping of biological samples by EDX

Tateo Daimon

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Why the electron spectroscopic imaging?

Yutaka Futaesaku, Takumi Akagi, Noriyuki Nagaoka and Noriyuki Nagai

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Application of ion microscopy in medicine and biology

Kenichi Takaya

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Recent advances in structure analyses of GP zones in aluminum alloys

Tatsuo Sato and Kenji Matsuda

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Formation of the nano-diamond in transmission electron microscopy

Seiji Kimura and Chihiro Kaito

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Single particle analysis from the EM images of the freely rotated protein molecules: Three dimensional structure of voltage sensitive sodium channel protein

Chikara Sato, Yutaka Ueno, Toshihiko Ogura and Yoshinori Fujiyoshi

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A real-time AFM

Toshio Ando

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Grain boundary and interface characterization by TEM (I)

Yuichi Ikuhara and Takahisa Yamamoto

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Charge and orbital ordered structure and phase separation in doped manganites

Shigeo Mori, Toru Asaka and Yoshio Matsui

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Structural analysis of SRO states in ordered alloys

Satoshi Hata, Toshitsugu Mitate and Noriyuki Kuwano

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Oxidative stress-induced alteration of PKC signal transduction and neuronal cell death

Susumu Takekoshi, Hidetaka Nagata, Yorihiro Yamamoto and Keiichi Watanabe

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Glutamate receptors and cerebellar synapse development

Masahiko Watanabe

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Report on the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2001

Masami Terauchi

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Report on the Microscopy & Microanalysis 2001

Shinichi Ohno

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Seiji Isoda

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