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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Mass Spectrom. 2011 Jan 24;46(2):209–222. doi: 10.1002/jms.1876

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Various strategies can be applied to visualization of IMS data. Background correction, normalization, denoising and contrast-enhancement are just a few popular methods for cleaning up and correcting analyte signal throughout a sample. A) Original image, MALDI-imaging dataset for a transverse section of mouse brain, fixed mass. B) After contrast-enhancement by correcting 5% of the brightest pixels. C) After contrast-enhancement by histogram equalization. D) After histogram equalization and edge-preserving denoising.