title: Stray light correction in the optical spectroscopy of crystals.
abstract: It has long been known in spectroscopy that light not passing through a sample, but reaching the detector (i.e., stray light), results in a distortion of the spectrum known as absorption flattening. In spectroscopy with crystals, one must either include such stray light or take steps to exclude it. In the former case, the derived spectra are not accurate. In the latter case, a significant amount of the crystal must be masked off and excluded. In this paper, we describe a method that allows use of the entire crystal by correcting the distorted spectrum.
authors.affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA. hendlerr@helix.nih.gov
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hendler
authors.forename: Curtis W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Meuse
authors.forename: Travis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: Joerg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Labahn
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kubicek
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kakareka
mesh_terms: D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods*; D007700:Kinetics; D008027:Light; D018717:Purple Membrane / Q000737:chemistry*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000379:methods*