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Title: An assessment of the resolution limitation due to radiation-damage in X-ray diffraction microscopy

Journal Article · · Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States) Dept. of Physics
  3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States). Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States) Dept. of Physics
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  7. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States) Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

X-ray diffraction microscopy (XDM) is a new form of x-ray imaging that is being practiced at several third-generation synchrotron-radiation x-ray facilities. Nine years have elapsed since the technique was first introduced and it has made rapid progress in demonstrating high-resolution three-dimensional imaging and promises few-nm resolution with much larger samples than can be imaged in the transmission electron microscope. Both life- and materials-science applications of XDM are intended, and it is expected that the principal limitation to resolution will be radiation damage for life science and the coherent power of available x-ray sources for material science. In this paper we address the question of the role of radiation damage. Here, we use a statistical analysis based on the so-called "dose fractionation theorem" of Hegerl and Hoppe to calculate the dose needed to make an image of a single life-science sample by XDM with a given resolution. We find that for simply-shaped objects the needed dose scales with the inverse fourth power of the resolution and present experimental evidence to support this finding. To determine the maximum tolerable dose we have assembled a number of data taken from the literature plus some measurements of our own which cover ranges of resolution that are not well covered otherwise. The conclusion of this study is that, based on the natural contrast between protein and water and "Rose-criterion" image quality, one should be able to image a frozen-hydrated biological sample using XDM at a resolution of about 10 nm.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-04ER46128; AC03-76SF00098; 5U54 GM074929-02; 1P50 GM082250-02; W-740740 5-Eng-48; 1R01 GM64846-01; IDBR 0555845
OSTI ID:
1165056
Journal Information:
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 170, Issue 1-3; ISSN 0368-2048
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 346 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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