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Pulse requirements for x-ray diffraction imaging of single biological molecules
Stefan P Hau-Riege1, Richard A London, Gosta Huldt
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA.
Abstract:
In this paper we estimate the required pulse parameters for the future application of x-ray free electron lasers to imaging single biological molecules. The parameters are determined by a tradeoff between minimizing image degradation due to damage and maximizing the image signal-to-noise ratio. We discuss several means to alleviate the pulse requirements, and compare the requirements with parameters of two planned x-ray lasers.

