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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…
Attenuation compensation (AC) is a pre-requisite for reliable quantification and beneficial for visual interpretation tasks in single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Typical AC methods require the availability of an attenuation…
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