Muscle contraction: challenges for synchrotron radiation

Recent X-ray diffraction/scattering studies on the actomyosin motor system are described and future challenges for synchrotron radiation are discussed.

The use of a Hamamatsu X-ray image intensifier with a cooled CCD as a solution X-ray scattering detector

A CCD detector has been quantitatively studied for use in solution X-ray scattering, and showed that, for the most part, detector distortion and shading have little effect on SAXS analysis.