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Imaging and Ion-Beam Milling of Biological Specimens with the Helium-Ion Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

Matthias Schmidt ,
Chaturanga Bandara ,
Marc Tamisier ,
Ilari Maasilta  and
James Byrne
Matthias Schmidt
Affiliation:
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Chaturanga Bandara
Affiliation:
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Marc Tamisier
Affiliation:
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Ilari Maasilta
Affiliation:
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
James Byrne
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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Type
Advances in Focused Ion Beam Instrumentation, Applications and Techniques in and Materials and Life Sciences
Information
Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 27 , Supplement S1 , August 2021 , pp. 768 - 769
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Microscopy Society of America

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The authors acknowledge scientific and technical assistance of Federica Calabrese, Musat, Niculina, Nerlich, Katja, Nedal Said and Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk at Helmholtz – Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, ProVIS, Leipzig, GermanyGoogle Scholar
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The authors are grateful to Robin Dittrich for systematic ion-beam milling of wings collected from bees and dragonflies (no killing of insects, for this study only dead animals were collected) during his internship at Helmholtz – Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, ProVIS, Leipzig, Germany.Google Scholar
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The authors are thankful for the use of the helium-ion microscope at the Centre for Chemical Microscopy (ProVIS) at UFZ Leipzig, which is supported by European Regional Development Funds (EFRE-Europe funds Saxony) and the Helmholtz Association, and for the use of the helium-ion microscope at University of Jyväskylä, which is funded by the Academy of Finland within the FIRI2014 programme.Google Scholar