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Single particle diffraction imaging experiments at free-electron lasers (FEL) have a great potential for structure determination of reproducible biological specimens that can not be crystallized. One of the challenges in processing the data…

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Single molecule imaging is one of the main target areas of X-ray free electron lasers. It relies on the possibility of orienting the large number of low counting statistics 2D diffraction patterns taken at random orientations of identical…

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Single particle imaging (SPI) at X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) is a technique to determine the 3D structure of nanoscale objects like biomolecules from a large number of diffraction patterns of copies of these objects in random…

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Single-particle imaging experiments of biomolecules at x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) require processing of hundreds of thousands (or more) of images that contain very few x-rays. Each low-flux image of the diffraction pattern is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-16 Hugh T. Philipp , Kartik Ayyer , Mark W. Tate , Veit Elser , Sol M. Gruner

The ability to directly follow and time resolve the rearrangement of the nuclei within molecules is a frontier of science that requires atomic spatial and few-femtosecond temporal resolutions. While laser induced electron diffraction can…

The classical method of determining the atomic structure of complex molecules by analyzing diffraction patterns is currently undergoing drastic developments. Modern techniques for producing extremely bright and coherent X-ray lasers allow a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-12 Tomas Ekeberg , Stefan Engblom , Jing Liu

The development of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) has opened numerous opportunities to probe atomic structure and ultrafast dynamics of various materials. Single Particle Imaging (SPI) with XFELs enables the investigation of biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhantao Chen , Cong Wang , Mingye Gao , Chun Hong Yoon , Jana B. Thayer , Joshua J. Turner

Single Particle Imaging techniques at X-ray lasers have made significant strides, yet the challenge of determining the orientation of freely rotating molecules during delivery remains. In this study, we propose a novel method to partially…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Tomas André , Emiliano De Santis , Nicusor Timneanu , Carl Caleman

The advent of X-ray Free Electron Lasers promises the possibility to determine the structure of individual particles such as microcrystallites, viruses and biomolecules from single-shot diffraction snapshots obtained before the particle is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-06 Brian Moths , Abbas Ourmazd

Modern technology for producing extremely bright and coherent X-ray laser pulses provides the possibility to acquire a large number of diffraction patterns from individual biological nanoparticles, including proteins, viruses, and DNA.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-11 Stefan Engblom , Carl Nettelblad , Jing Liu

X-ray single particle imaging involves the measurement of a large number of noisy diffraction patterns of isolated objects in random orientations. The missing information about these patterns is then computationally recovered in order to…

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Super-resolution imaging based on single molecule localization allows accessing nanometric-scale information in biological samples with high precision. However, complete measurements including molecule orientation are still challenging.…

The short pulses of X-ray free electron lasers can produce diffraction patterns with structural information before radiation damage destroys the particle. The particles are injected into the beam in random orientations and they should be…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-31 Miklós Tegze , Gábor Bortel

Determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes at atomic resolution is a fundamental task in structural biology. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made using "single particle" cryo-electron…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Andras Pataki , Marina Spivak

Revealing the structure of complex biological macromolecules, such as proteins, is an essential step for understanding the chemical mechanisms that determine the diversity of their functions. Synchrotron based x-ray crystallography and…

The mode of action of proteins is to a large extent given by their ability to adopt different conformations. This is why imaging single biomolecules at atomic resolution is one of the ultimate goals of biophysics and structural biology. The…

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We solve the orientation recovery of a tumbling protein in the gas phase from single-event measurements of the spatial positions of its ions after an X-ray laser induced explosion. We simulate diffracted X-ray signal and ion dynamics under…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Tomas André , Alfredo Bellisario , Nicusor Timneanu , Carl Caleman

Single molecule X-ray scattering experiments using free electron lasers hold the potential to resolve both single structures and structural ensembles of biomolecules. However, molecular electron density determination has so far not been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Steffen Schultze , Helmut Grubmüller

Serial crystallography experiments routinely produce thousands of diffraction patterns from crystals in random orientations. To turn this stream of images into a usable dataset, each pattern must be indexed before integration and merging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Marc M Nasser , Frédéric Poitevin , Kevin M Dalton

Single molecule X-ray scattering experiments with free electron lasers have opened a new route to the structure determination of biomolecules. Because typically only very few photons per scattering image are recorded and thus the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Steffen Schultze , Helmut Grubmüller
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