Table 3.
Comparison of microscopy and scattering techniques with advantageous traits highlighted in bold.
| microscopy | scattering | |
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| local structure and detail | easily detected | details lost |
| average structure | difficult to obtain | always obtained |
| preparation artefacts | difficult to prevent | none: measurement in-situ |
| resulting data | direct pictures with poor statistics | difficult to interpret, good statistics |