How best to use photons.
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SUBMITTER: Winter G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450062 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
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How best to use photons.
Winter Graeme G Gildea Richard J RJ Paterson Neil G NG Beale John J Gerstel Markus M Axford Danny D Vollmar Melanie M McAuley Katherine E KE Owen Robin L RL Flaig Ralf R Ashton Alun W AW Hall David R DR
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology 20190319 Pt 3
Strategies for collecting X-ray diffraction data have evolved alongside beamline hardware and detector developments. The traditional approaches for diffraction data collection have emphasised collecting data from noisy integrating detectors (i.e. film, image plates and CCD detectors). With fast pixel array detectors on stable beamlines, the limiting factor becomes the sample lifetime, and the question becomes one of how to expend the photons that your sample can diffract, i.e. as a smaller numbe ...[more]
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