Fig. 1
View of the measuring chamber.
Fig. 2
Optical microscope photo with superimposed STIM image. The red rectangles on the image represent the scan areas of point measurements for control sample.
Fig. 3
Element distribution maps of control sample made with the PIXE method.
Fig. 4
Maps of the elemental distribution of point no. 1 located on control sample.
Fig. 5
Optical microscope photo with superimposed STIM image. The red rectangles on the image represent the scan areas of point measurements for dystrophy sample.
Fig. 6
Element distribution maps of dystrophy sample made with the PIXE method.
Fig. 7
Selected maps of the elemental distribution for point no. 3 – dystrophy sample.
Fig. 8
Box-and-whisker plots for the Kruskal–Wallis test for individual elements with mean values (inner box), means ± standard error (outer box), and means ± standard deviation (whiskers).
Table 1
Partial Wilks’ lambda values
| Partial Wilks’ lambda | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K | S | Na | Cl | P | Mg | Zn | Fe | Br |
| 0.24 | 0.70 | 0.95 | 0.59 | 0.65 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 |
Fig. 9
A graph of the configuration of points representing three types of muscle tissue samples in a layout determined by discriminant variables (axes).