Investigation of the microstructure and mineralogical composition of urinary calculi fragments by synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography: a feasibility study

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Authors	KAISER Jozef HOLÁ Markéta VAŠINOVÁ GALIOVÁ Michaela NOVOTNÝ Karel KANICKÝ Viktor MARTINEC Petr ŠČUČKA Jiří BRUN Francesco SODINI Nikola TROMBA Giuliana MANCINI Lucia KOŘISTKOVÁ Tamara
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	UROLOGICAL RESEARCH
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00240-010-0343-9
Field	Geology and mineralogy
Keywords	Urinary calculi; microstructure; Computed microtomography; Synchrotron radiation
Description	The outcomes from the feasibility study on utilization of synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography to investigate the texture and the quantitative mineralogical composition of selected calcium oxalate-based urinary calculi fragments are presented.
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