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Tables for Crystallography Volume F Crystallography of biological macromolecules Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 6.1, p. 125
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In this chapter we shall discuss the production of the most suitable X-ray beams for data collection from single crystals of macromolecules. This subject covers the generation of X-rays and the conditioning or selection of the X-ray beam that falls on the sample with regard to intensity, cross section, degree of parallelism and spectral composition. The conclusions drawn do not necessarily apply to smaller-unit-cell crystals or to noncrystalline samples.
