Figure 7
(a) Region (B): the figure shows a phase image of the B. thuringiensis sample. The phase map corresponds to a single mHIO reconstruction. The black dots indicate the boundaries of the endospores used for mass estimations whereas the white dots surround the region being defined here as `background' ( fg). Endospores are labelled from (1) to (5). The average mass per single endospore is (9) fg. The black arrow heads indicate positions of other dense bacterial features such as possible BT crystals. The grey arrow head points to an almost fully lysed cell. The scale bar denotes 2 µm. (b) Region (C) of (a): the figure shows a phase image of the B. thuringiensis sample. The phase map corresponds to a single mHIO reconstruction at higher magnification. The scale bar denotes 1 µm. |