Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tomographic imaging method
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Application No.: US15688768Application Date: 2017-08-28
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Publication No.: US10593068B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Remco Schoenmakers , Pavel Poto{hacek over (c)}ek
- Applicant: FEI Company
- Applicant Address: US OR Hillsboro
- Assignee: FEI Company
- Current Assignee: FEI Company
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Hillsboro
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Priority: EP16189519 20160919
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T11/00 ; H01J37/22 ; H01J37/28

Abstract:
Methods of investigating a specimen using tomographic imaging include directing a beam of radiation through a specimen and onto a detector, thereby generating an image of the specimen. The directing is repeated for different specimen orientations relative to the beam, thereby generating a corresponding set of images. An iterative mathematical reconstruction technique is used to convert the images into a tomogram. The reconstruction is mathematically constrained to curtail a solution space using three-dimensional SEM imagery of at least a part of the specimen that overlaps the tomogram by requiring iterative results of the reconstruction to be consistent with pixel values derived from the SEM imagery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180082444A1 TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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