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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2014
Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Nakahira, Tokyo, JP;
Maki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A scanning charged particle microscope apparatus includes image quality improvement unit which performs an image quality improvement process on image data which is obtained by detecting particles generated from a sample, the image quality improvement unit divides a region in which the image data is acquired into two or more regions on the basis of a distance from a region in which the image data within a visual field of a charged particle optical unit is not acquired, determines an image quality improvement processing method and a processing parameter for image quality improvement for the image data in each of the separate regions according to the separate regions; and performs an image quality improvement process on the image data in each of the separate regions by using the determined processing method and processing parameter corresponding to the separate region.