Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging (2006)
Chapter: D Acronyms and Abbreviations
D
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACRONYMS
ADMP Atom-centered Density Matrix Propagation
AES Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
AFM Atomic Force Microscopy
ATP Adenosine 5’-Triphosphate
AXSIA Expert Spectral Image Analysis
BEEM Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy
BOMD Bohr-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics
CARS Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
CAT Computerized Axial Tomography
CCD Charge-Coupled Device
CIF Chemical Image Fusion
CPMD Carr-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics
CT Computed Tomography
CTAB Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide
CW Continuous Wave (Laser)
DCT Discrete Cosine Transformation
DIC Differential Interference Contrast
DICOM Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine
DIM Diffraction Imaging Microscopy
DWT Discrete Wavelet Transform
EDXS Energy-dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
EELS Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
EM Electron Microscopy
ENVI Environment for Visualizing Images
FCS Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
FT Fourier Transform
fMRI Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
GFP Green Fluorescent Protein
GID Global Image Database
GISAXS Grazing Incidence Small-angle X-ray Scattering
GMR Giant Magnetoresistivity
GRIN Gradient Refractive Index
GUI Graphical User Interface
HPLC High-performance Liquid Chromatography
ICS Indosyanine Green
IETS Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy
IXS Inelastic X-ray Scattering
IR Infrared
LCLS Linear Coherent Light Source
LDL Low-density Lipoprotein
LED Light-emitting Diode
LEEM Low-energy Electron Microscopy
MALDI Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization
MCM-41 Mobile Crystalline Material-41
MCR Multivariate Curve Resolution
MD Molecular Dynamics
ME Matrix-enhanced
MFM Magnetic Force Micrscopy
MI Multivariate Image
MPM Multiphoton Microscopy
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MS Mass Spectroscopy
MVA Multivariate Analysis
NEXAFS Near-edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (Spectroscopy)
NIBIB National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
NIGMS National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIR Near Infrared
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NRS Nuclear Resonant Scattering
NSOM Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
PACS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
PCA Principal Component Analysis
PDB Protein Data Bank
PEEM Photoemission Electron Microscopy
PESTM STM Photoemission Spectroscopy
PET Positron Emission Tomography
PrP Prion Protein
RFP Red Fluorescent Protein
RGB Red, Green, Blue
ROI Region of Interest
RIXS Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
SAXS Small-angle X-ray Scattering
SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
SERS Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering
SHG Second Harmonic Generation
SIMS Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
SPM Scanning Probe Microscopy
SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
STEM Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
STM Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
STXM Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy
SXES Soft X-ray Emission Spectroscopy
TEM Transmission Electron Microscope
TERS Tip-enhanced Ramen Spectroscopy
THG Third Harmonic Generation
THz Terahertz
TOF Time of Flight
TXM Full-field X-ray Microscopy
UV Ultraviolet
WAXS Wide-angle X-ray Scattering
WT Wavelet Transform
XAS X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
XMCD X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
XPCS X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
XPS X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
XTM X-ray Tomography
UNIT ABBREVIATIONS
Å angstrom (length)
amu atomic mass unit (atomic size)
cm centimeter (length)
Hz, MHz, THz hertz, megahertz, terahertz (frequency)
Da, kDa dalton, kilodalton (molecular size)
eV, keV electronvolt, kiloelectronvolt (energy)
K kelvin (temperature)
MB megabyte
mm millimeter (length)
mW milliwatt (power)
nm nanometer (length)
T tesla (magnetic strength)
µm micrometer or micron (length)
