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On the determination of fiber tilt angles in fiber diffraction
1Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 45, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. norbert@stribeck.de
Abstract:
The common digital method that is used to eliminate the effect of fiber tilt from fiber diffraction patterns is based on an approximation given by Franklin & Gosling [Acta Cryst. (1953), 6, 678-685]. The estimate of the tilt angle is iteratively optimized in the so-called ;Fraser correction'. Building on the fundamental work of Polanyi [Z. Phys. (1921), 7, 149-180], the exact solution is presented.
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