[ccp4bb] Announcement: 11th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples

2019-08-27 Thread Dworkowski Florian (PSI)
The 11th International Workshop on Radiation Damage to Biological Samples will be held at the PSI, Switzerland from lunchtime 25th to lunchtime 27th of March, 2020. The Workshop will address essential questions and challenges of radiation damage to biological samples during their examination wi

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-Topic Q / X Ray FLuoresence Scan Vs XANES

2014-07-23 Thread Dworkowski Florian
Dear Tarek There are several things to consider: 1-At an MX beamline the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scans are usually used to define good energies for measurement of anomalous data. While XANES and XRF in general are similar techniques, they are used for very different applications. This said,

Re: [ccp4bb] detectors on home sources

2013-05-02 Thread Dworkowski Florian
I can not really speak for a home-source setup, but here at the SLS MX group we run two Pilatus6M (one of which is the first Pilatus ever made) and one Pilatus2M. In nearly four years since we installed the first one we never had any hardware issue other than users damaging the case. So I'd say the