Data Recording, Reduction and Processing

Manfred Roessle
EMBL, Hamburg Outstation, Germany

This lecture will explain the initial steps of a solution SAXS experiments. After an introductory part of SAXS instrumentation, the different data reduction and processing steps will be discussed in detail:

1. Recording of Small Angle Scattering (SAS) data
1. SAXS beamlines;
2. SAXS beamline optics;
3. detection of X-rays for SAXS;
4. automation.
2. Primary Data Reduction
1. radial averaging;
2. normalization;
3. subtraction;
4. pipeline for data analysis.
3. Initial data processing
1. Guinier approximation;
2. estimation of the molecular weight;
3. quality check of SAXS data.

Date/time: Monday, 20 October, 9:00