Thon rings from amorphous ice and implications of beam-induced Brownian motion in single particle electron cryo-microscopy

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 158, Issue , 2015, Pages 26-32

  McMullan, G ^a   Vinothkumar, K R ^a   Henderson, R ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amorphous ice; Markov Process; Noise whitening; Radiation damage; Thon rings

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; AMORPHOUS FILMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CARBON; CARBON FILMS; ELECTRONS; MACROMOLECULES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOLECULES; POWER SPECTRUM; RADIATION DAMAGE;

AMORPHOUS ICE; BEAM-INDUCED MOVEMENTS; ELECTRON CRYO MICROSCOPIES; MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES; MEAN SQUARED DISTANCES; NOISE WHITENING; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; THON RINGS;

ICE;

AMORPHOUS ICE; CARBON; ICE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MACROMOLECULE; WATER;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BROWNIAN MOTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRRADIATION; LIQUID; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PARTICLE CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID; THON RING; CHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

FALCONIDAE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; ICE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOTION; WATER;

EID: 84934905971     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.05.017     Document Type: Article

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