A beginner’s guide to radiation damage

Radiation damage considerations affecting data collection by more than a factor of two are summarized and damage avoidance strategies are suggested.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

• Publication date

  2009-02-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1107/S0909049509004361PMID 19240325PMCID 2651760
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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