Diffraction patterns from small protein crystals illuminated by highly coherent X-rays often contain measurable interference signals between Bragg peaks. This coherent 'shape transform' signal introduces enoug...
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Diffraction patterns from small protein crystals illuminated by highly coherent X-rays often contain measurable interference signals between Bragg peaks. This coherent 'shape transform' signal introduces enough additional information to allow the molecular densities to be determined from the diffracted intensities directly, without prior information or resolution restrictions. However, the various correlations amongst molecular occupancies/vacancies at the crystal surface result in a subtle yet critical problem in shape transform phasing whereby the sublattices of symmetry-related molecules exhibit a form of partial coherence amongst lattice sites when an average is taken over many crystal patterns. Here an iterative phase retrieval algorithm is developed which is capable of treating this problem;it is demonstrated on simulated data.
We outline an image reconstruction algorithm that is capable of reconstructing an object from the averaged Fourier intensity of finite crystals of that object with arbitrary lattice occupancies. The algorithm is teste...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538662496
We outline an image reconstruction algorithm that is capable of reconstructing an object from the averaged Fourier intensity of finite crystals of that object with arbitrary lattice occupancies. The algorithm is tested via simulations where the 3-dimensional electron density of a protein molecule is successfully reconstructed from such intensity measurements.
Phasing of diffraction data from two-dimensional crystals using only minimal molecular envelope information is investigated by simulation. Two-dimensional crystals are an attractive target for studying membrane protei...
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Phasing of diffraction data from two-dimensional crystals using only minimal molecular envelope information is investigated by simulation. Two-dimensional crystals are an attractive target for studying membrane proteins using X-ray free-electron lasers, particularly for dynamic studies at room temperature. Simulations using an iterativeprojection algorithm show that phasing is feasible with fairly minimal molecular envelope information, supporting recent uniqueness results for this problem [Arnal & Millane (2017). Acta Cryst. A73, 438-448]. The effects of noise and likely requirements for structure determination using X-ray free-electron laser sources are investigated.
It is demonstrated here that the exit wave-field of objects from two different planes along the wave propagation axis can be retrieved from their coherently summed far-field diffraction intensity. This is achieved thr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538642764
It is demonstrated here that the exit wave-field of objects from two different planes along the wave propagation axis can be retrieved from their coherently summed far-field diffraction intensity. This is achieved through the application of an iterativeprojection algorithm developed previously in [1]. Simulations show that given such an intensity data, the algorithm can successfully retrieve the exit wave-field of the two objects simultaneously, provided the objects are translated far enough away from each other in the transverse direction to the propagation axis.
An additional step to traditional iterative phase retrieval algorithms is described that allows the reconstruction of an image from the product of its sufficiently sampled far-field diffraction intensity and a second ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510612785;9781510612778
An additional step to traditional iterative phase retrieval algorithms is described that allows the reconstruction of an image from the product of its sufficiently sampled far-field diffraction intensity and a second signal. The iterative phasing algorithm with this added step attempts to recover both the image and the multiplicative signal at the same time. Simulations show that reasonable reconstructions of both the original image and the multiplicative signal can be attained in many cases.
A projection operator is derived for use in iterative phase retrieval algorithms when the Fourier intensity data is an average over the intensity from multiple clusters of identical objects. The projection operator is...
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A projection operator is derived for use in iterative phase retrieval algorithms when the Fourier intensity data is an average over the intensity from multiple clusters of identical objects. The projection operator is a generalization of the magnitude projection for conventional phase retrieval for a single object, and is applicable when the relative orientations and positions of the objects within the clusters are known. Simulations demonstrate that an iterativeprojection algorithm equipped with this new projection operator can successfully reconstruct an object from the averaged Fourier intensities from multiple clusters, each containing multiple copies of the object.
Alternating-projection-type dual-space algorithms have a clear construction, but are susceptible to stagnation and, thus, inefficient for solving the phase problem ab initio. To improve this behaviour new omit maps ar...
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Alternating-projection-type dual-space algorithms have a clear construction, but are susceptible to stagnation and, thus, inefficient for solving the phase problem ab initio. To improve this behaviour new omit maps are introduced, which are real-space perturbations applied periodically during the iteration process. The omit maps are called volumic, because they delete some predetermined subvolume of the unit cell without searching for atomic regions or analysing the electron density in any other way. The basic algorithms of positivity, histogram matching and low-density elimination are tested by their solution statistics. It is concluded that, while all these algorithms based on weak constraints are practically useless in their pure forms, appropriate volumic omit maps can transform them to practically useful methods. In addition, the efficiency of the already useful reflector-type charge-flipping algorithm can be further improved. It is important that these results are obtained by using non-sharpened structure factors and without any weighting scheme or reciprocalspace perturbation. The mathematical background of volumic omit maps and their expected applications are also discussed.
An algorithm is described for reconstructing compact binary images from limited Fourier amplitude data. This problem arises in macromolecular crystallography where one wishes to reconstruct the molecular envelope from...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780819472960
An algorithm is described for reconstructing compact binary images from limited Fourier amplitude data. This problem arises in macromolecular crystallography where one wishes to reconstruct the molecular envelope from crystal x-ray diffraction amplitudes using a solvent contrast series. Such data are the amplitude of the Fourier transform of all object that has a constant electron density within the boundary of the molecule and zero outside. The image is thus binary and compact, but, the data are available only within a limited resolution range in Fourier space and are undersampled. The problem is solved Using all iterativeprojection algorithm;a class of algorithm used to solve inverse problems for which the solution is subject to a, number of constraints that, represent a priori information and the data. Unfortunately, these algorithms experience convergence difficulties if one or more of the constraints are non-convex, which is the case for all the constraint's in this problem. We solve the problem by constructing appropriate projection operators and implementing the difference map projection algorithm. Simulations axe used to study convergence behaviour of the algorithm.
The envelope problem in macromolecular x-ray crystallography involves determining the boundary of a molecule from measurements of amplitudes of x-rays diffracted from a crystalline specimen. This represents a highly u...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424417650
The envelope problem in macromolecular x-ray crystallography involves determining the boundary of a molecule from measurements of amplitudes of x-rays diffracted from a crystalline specimen. This represents a highly underdetermined image reconstruction problem with a large number of degrees of freedom. We regularize the problem by applying binary and connectivity constraints to the image, and seek the solution using the method of iterated projections. However, since the constraints are highly non-convex, the usual methods of generalized projections are not effective. We use the difference map projection algorithm and show that this is effective with simulated diffraction data from a protein envelope.
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