channelography

channel +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

channelography (uncountable)

1. The study of the process that constrains the path of a charged particle in a crystalline solid.
   • 1971 June 16, “Détermination par canaligraphie de l'orientation de microcristaux”, in physica status solidi (a), volume 5, number 3, abstract, page 683:

     If a crystalline thin foil is irradiated by means of an isotropic source of charged particles, the particles channeled in the sample leave on a detector an image called channelography.

   • 2003, Michael F. L'Annunziata, Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis‎, page 218:

     Transmission radiography can also be subdivided into: (i) neutron radiography; (ii) ion radiography; (iii) ion lithography; and (iv) ion channelography.

   • 2012, P. Bettin, Glaucoma Surgery‎, page 111:

     From the author's experience, provocative gonioscopy and channelography are useful to determine the overall status of the individual case before surgical intervention.

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