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The present generation of high resolution, fixed beam transmission electron microscopes is well capable of resolving spatial detail of 3 Å resolution in the axial Illumination, bright field image mode [1]. However, the structural information that can be obtained from images of biological specimens is presently limited to 7 Å resolution [2,3]. This limitation is due in the first instance to specimen damage that is caused by the irradiating electrons [4].
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Chiu, W., Glaeser, R.M. (1980). Evaluation of Photographic Emulsions for Low-Exposure-Imaging. In: Baumeister, W., Vogell, W. (eds) Electron Microscopy at Molecular Dimensions. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67688-8_23
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