title: Image plate detectors for macromolecular neutron diffractometry.
abstract: Neutron diffraction studies of macromolecules require large position sensitive detectors. It is proposed that such a device can be based on image plate technology, which relies on re-usable photostimuable phosphors, combined with a neutron to gamma-ray converter. Design parameters such as the best wavelength for the neutron radiation and the optimum sample to detector distance are discussed, and a design for a cylindrical detector is outlined. Presently a prototype of such a detector is being built, and the very first test-recording of an X-ray diffraction pattern from a protein crystal is presented.
authors.affiliation: EMBL Outstation, Avenue des Martyrs, F38042 Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cipriani
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dauvergne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gabriel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lehmann