Coherent diffraction of single Rice Dwarf Virus particles using soft X-rays at the Linac Coherent Light Source

• Single particle imaging using X-ray Free Electron Lasers has recently made major advancements that have facilitated experiments on smaller samples compared to the earliest reported works on giant viruses and cells. Here, the technique was used to image the 70 nm Rice dwarf virus, for which the generated dataset is described here. The virus particles were aerosolized and injected into the X-ray beam of the Linac Coherent Light Source. A total number of 36534 diffraction patterns were recorded, of which approximately 10 % were classified as ‘single hits’ by the RedFlamingo software. With the anticipation to advance method development, the dataset along with usage instructions are deposited in the Coherent X-ray imaging data bank, free to access and analyze.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

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