International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume F
Crystallography of biological macromolecules
Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 11.4, p. 229   | 1 | 2 |

Section 11.4.5.1. Crystal diffraction

Z. Otwinowskia* and W. Minorb

a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9038, USA, and bDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, 1300 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  zbyszek@mix.swmed.edu

11.4.5.1. Crystal diffraction

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The crystal response function consists of two types of factors included in the analysis: additive factors, which are represented by the background, and a number of multiplicative factors, such as exposed crystal volume, overall and resolution-dependent decay, Lorentz factor, flux variation, polarization, etc. Other factors, like extinction and non-decay radiation damage (radiation damage can result not only in decay, but also in a change in the crystal lattice, often a main source of error in an experiment), are ignored by HKL, except for their contribution to error estimates.








































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