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Title: Imaging single cells in a beam of live cyanobacteria with an X-ray laser (CXIDB ID 27)

Dataset ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.11577/1169687· OSTI ID:1169687

Diffraction pattern of a micron-sized S. elongatus cell at 1,100 eV photon energy (1.13 nm wavelength) with ~10^11 photons per square micron on the sample in ~70 fs. The signal to noise ratio at 4 nm resolution is 3.7 with 0.24 photons per Nyquist pixel. The cell was alive at the time of the exposure. The central region of the pattern (dark red) is saturated and this prevented reliable image reconstruction.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank; Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)
Sponsoring Organization:
Uppsala University
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1169687
Report Number(s):
CXIDB ID 27
Resource Relation:
Related Information: Imaging single cells in a beam of live cyanobacteria with an X-ray laser, Gijs van der Schot et al. Nature Communications, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6704
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English