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, pp. 230-231   | 1 | 2 |

Section 11.4.5.10. Detector goniostat

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

11.4.5.10. Detector goniostat

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The detector goniostat in DENZO can have only one rotation axis – 2θ. In the complex transformations described in equation (11.4.2.8[link]), the geometrical scale is affected by pixel-to-millimetre conversion and distortion. For different instruments, the scale is defined differently. For detectors without distortion, the scale is defined by the value of the pixel size in the `slow' direction. For detectors with distortion characterized by polynomials (e.g. CCD detectors), the scale is also defined by the way the distortion was determined. In such a case, the source of scale is the separation between holes in the reference grid mask or, alternatively, the goniostat translation. As the distance of the detector active surface from the crystal cannot be measured precisely, the difference between the two distances is the ultimate source of the scale reference. The angle between the detector distance translation and the X-ray beam completes the definition of the detector goniostat in HKL.








































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