Abstract
We report on the first experimental ab initio reconstruction of an image of a single particle from fluctuations in the scattering from an ensemble of copies, randomly oriented about an axis. The method is applicable to identical particles frozen in space or time (as by snapshot diffraction from an x-ray free electron laser). These fluctuations enhance information obtainable from an experiment such as conventional small angle x-ray scattering.
- Received 29 September 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.115501
© 2011 American Physical Society
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Imaging matter in different spaces
Published 14 March 2011
An x-ray free electron laser setup converts the diffraction pattern of randomly positioned and oriented particles into an image of a single particle.
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