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FLASH microscopy

An ultrafast diffractive imaging technique that reconstructs an object's structure from a single short X-ray pulse is an important step towards the superlative spatial and temporal resolution promised by next-generation free-electron lasers.

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Figure 1: Proposed experiment 8,9 with X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) to determine the structure of macromolecules that will not crystallize.

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Kirz, J. FLASH microscopy. Nature Phys 2, 799–800 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys474

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