Data reduction and processing

Manfred Roessle

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
   • SAXS beamlines;
   • SAXS beamline optics;
   • detection of X-rays for SAXS;
   • automation.
2. Primary Data Reduction
   • radial averaging;
   • normalization;
   • subtraction;
   • pipeline for data analysis.
3. Initial data processing
   • Guinier approximation;
   • estimation of the molecular weight;
   • quality check of SAXS data.

Date/time: Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 9:00