{"term":{"id":"09434","title":"useful spatial resolution","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - useful spatial resolution","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.09434","code":"09434","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Image resolution in secondary ion mass spectrometry obtained in practice.","notes":{"1":"The image resolution is poorer than the primary-ion beam diameter as a result of either the need to maintain the damage level below a limit set by the integrity of the data or the need to record sufficient signal when the sample is being consumed during analysis."},"contexts":[],"links":[{"term":"secondary ion mass spectrometry","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/09192"}],"sources":["PAC, 2020, 92, 1781. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 1846 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2019-0404)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09434\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09434\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09434\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'useful spatial resolution' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.09434","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-08-07T22:10:40+00:00"}}