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FR3RBI01 | Single Particle Diffraction at FLASH | 4286 |
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Radiation damage limits the resolution of structural information obtained by X-ray diffraction. We are developing coherent diffractive imaging of biological specimens beyond conventional radiation damage resolution limits. The soft X-ray free-electron-laser (FEL) in Hamburg, FLASH*, was used to generate high-resolution low-noise coherent diffraction patterns from nanostructured nonperiodic objects before they turned into a plasma and exploded during single {10}-30 fs long X-ray pulses**,***. Iterative phase retrieval algorithms were used to reconstruct images of the objects****. Recent single particle diffraction experiments at FLASH, achieved in part due to the bunch train time pattern available from this superconducting linear accelerator, will be described. Data from single nanoparticles, their clusters and single cells will be discussed. Extending this approach to hard X-ray FELs, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is anticipated to facilitate near atomic resolution imaging of nm-to-um-sized objects without the need for crystallization*****. * Ayvazyan et al Eur Phys J D 2006 37 297 |