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RECENT advances in holography1 have made apparent certain formal relationships between optical image synthesis, on one hand, and the heavy atom technique in X-ray crystallography, on the other. Bragg2 has already qualitatively indicated this analogy. An exact correspondence between the two processes has become clear only since the following two developments: (i) Fourier transform holography for extended sources3; (ii) the Ramachandran and Raman4 α-synthesis to deconvolute the Patterson function when the structure is partially known.
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TOLLIN, P., MAIN, P., ROSSMANN, M. et al. Holography and its Crystallographic Equivalent. Nature 209, 603–604 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209603a0
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