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Signal And Image Manipulation In Microanalysis, P. W. Hawkes

Scanning Microscopy

Scanning electron microscopes, and transmission instruments equipped for EELS, generate a host of signals and hence of images from each pixel of the specimen. Numerous ingenious ways of coping with this multiplicity of information, which may be very different in character, have been devised, but no detailed study has yet been made of the appropriate mathematical structure, with the aid of which all this information could be manipulated reasonably easily.

One such structure falls within the subject that has come to be known as Image Algebra, the principal attraction of which is that we deal directly with entire images …