Coherent diffraction of single Rice Dwarf virus particles using hard X rays at the Linac Coherent Light Source
Single particle diffractive imaging data from Rice Dwarf Virus (RDV) were recorded using the Coherent X ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) RDV was chosen as it is a well characterized model system, useful for proof of principle experiments, system optimization and algorithm development. RDV, an icosahedral virus of about 70 nm in diameter, was aerosolized and injected into the approximately 0.1 mm diameter focused hard X ray beam at the CXI instrument of LCLS. Diffraction patterns from RDV with signal to 5.9 Angstrom were recorded. The diffraction data are available through the Coherent X ray Imaging Data Bank (CXIDB) as a resource for algorithm development, the contents of which are described here.
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