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Matched Backprojection Operator for Combined Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Tilt- and Focal Series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

Tim Dahmen ,
Holger Kohr ,
Niels de Jonge  and
Philipp Slusallek
Tim Dahmen*
Affiliation:
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Holger Kohr
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Lindstedtsvägen 25, Stockholm, SE 100 44, Sweden
Niels de Jonge
Affiliation:
INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Philipp Slusallek
Affiliation:
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
*
*Corresponding author. Tim.Dahmen@dfki.de
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Abstract

Combined tilt- and focal series scanning transmission electron microscopy is a recently developed method to obtain nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) information of thin specimens. In this study, we formulate the forward projection in this acquisition scheme as a linear operator and prove that it is a generalization of the Ray transform for parallel illumination. We analytically derive the corresponding backprojection operator as the adjoint of the forward projection. We further demonstrate that the matched backprojection operator drastically improves the convergence rate of iterative 3D reconstruction compared to the case where a backprojection based on heuristic weighting is used. In addition, we show that the 3D reconstruction is of better quality.

Keywords

STEMtomography3Dfocal seriesiterative reconstructionback projectiondepth of field
Type
Techniques and Equipment Development
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 2015 , pp. 725 - 738
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© Microscopy Society of America 2015 

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