
Articles by Brian


Preparing for remote beamtime: More diamonds
Last year, I spent time (remote-) managing data corrections from Japan as the data came in at the Diamond I22 beamtime. Two more beamtime events […]

Ultra-SAXS on powders: pow(d)er to the people!
After the imminent move, “my” instrument will become unavailable again (it cannot travel with me). That means that now is the only time available to […]


Fancy background subtraction: a second look.
During last week’s visit to BAM in Berlin, I and Ingo played around with some equations. In particular, we were curious if we need to […]


Introspection
I’ve been working on a lot of things of late, but none are yet in a state to show here yet. However, when talking to […]

Does it matter part 4.2: The actual flatfield
Last week, I talked about how to determine whether a flatfield correction was necessary. Data from a Bruker Hi-Star detector was shown to have very […]

Does it matter part 4: flatfield correction on a Bruker HiStar wire detector
See the previous posts in this series here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 Very recently, Bruker upgraded their SAXS instrument in our building. […]

Fancy background subtraction: an initial look
As indicated last week, some spare time has been spent trying to re-derive a correction for separating sample container scattering from the sample itself. Normally, […]