TY  - JOUR
IS  - 24
N1  - © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
TI  - Towards single particle imaging of human chromosomes at SACLA
VL  - 48
AV  - public
Y1  - 2015/12/28/
JF  - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
A1  - Robinson, I
A1  - Schwenke, J
A1  - Yusuf, M
A1  - Estandarte, A
A1  - Zhang, F
A1  - Chen, B
A1  - Clark, J
A1  - Song, C
A1  - Nam, D
A1  - Joti, Y
A1  - Tono, K
A1  - Yabashi, M
A1  - Ratnasari, G
A1  - Kaneyoshi, K
A1  - Takata, H
A1  - Fukui, K
KW  - chromosome
KW  -  radiation damage
KW  -  diffraction
KW  -  metaphase
KW  -  iterative phasing
KW  -  coherence
KW  -  imaging
N2  - Single particle imaging (SPI) is one of the front-page opportunities which were used to motivate the construction of the first x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs). SPI's big advantage is that it avoids radiation damage to biological samples because the diffraction takes place in femtosecond single shots before any atomic motion can take place in the sample, hence before the onset of radiation damage. This is the 'diffract before destruction' theme, destruction being assured from the high x-ray doses used. This article reports our collaboration's first attempt at SPI using the SACLA XFEL facility in June 2015. The report is limited to experience with the instrumentation and examples of data because we have not yet had time to invert them to images.
ID  - discovery1477476
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/48/24/244007
SN  - 0953-4075
ER  -