[3dem] K3 optimal dose rate & F20 parallel illumination

Thu Feb 14 16:32:09 PST 2019

Just set the appropriate beam size for parallel illumination in nP at the start of your session, save the setting, collect for a day (or a week if you have that luxury), and solve your < 2Å resolution structure. The beam size shouldn't change and is very stable in our experience. On our Arctica in microprobe the beam is massive, even with a 50uM C2 aperture, which would limit the number of images you can acquire in an area using image shift.

> On Feb 14, 2019, at 4:16 PM, Israel Fernandez <israel.elotro at gmail.com> wrote:
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> hi again,
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> We operate the Polara and the F20 in microprobe, with small C2 apertures [50um for the F20, and 30um for the Polara, if i remember well...] and we have the feeling is pretty close to parallel. Win Hagen reported in twitter a under 2A reconstruction of apo-fe in microprobe AND FalconII in linear mode...so... 
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 18:56 Craig Yoshioka <yoshiokc at ohsu.edu <mailto:yoshiokc at ohsu.edu>> wrote:
> Oh, I have one comment about nP vs uP.  Yes, you can get a smaller parallel beam in nP -but- it is also way more sensitive to changes in beam size in nP.  As a result, we have been able to get below 3Å on an Arctica in microprobe, even when the beam size was not set to be perfectly parallel- it remains fairly close over a pretty large range.  This is a way more convenient configuration for a lot of use.
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>> On Feb 14, 2019, at 11:57 AM, Craig Yoshioka <yoshiokc at ohsu.edu <mailto:yoshiokc at ohsu.edu>> wrote:
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>> Hi Gary,
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>> We haven’t exhaustively tested yet, but we have been targeting around 15-20eps on the K3 and have been getting nice results.  This general range was based on the 400 -> 1500 read rate increase.  
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>> At very high-magnifications 15eps is quite a high flux, so sometimes we will go below 10eps just so that we don’t have to push very high FPS (40+) with < 1 sec exposures.  We have seen some mild pattern noise occasionally creep into images when trying to save at high frame rates.  Not sure yet if this is just our K3, or if it also seen by others.  So far it doesn’t seem to be a problem in practice, but feedback from others if they have seen this would be appreciated.    
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>> Cheers,
>> -Craig
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>>> On Feb 14, 2019, at 11:45 AM, Garry P Morgan <Garry.Morgan at Colorado.EDU <mailto:Garry.Morgan at Colorado.EDU>> wrote:
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>>> thanks everyone. 
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>>>> On Feb 14, 2019, at 11:53 AM, Reyes, Francis <francis.reyes at thermofisher.com <mailto:francis.reyes at thermofisher.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Yes it is advisable to work in nanoprobe. At parallel illumination and a 50 um C2 you should have around a 1.8um illuminated area.
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>>>> On Feb 14, 2019, at 12:36 PM, Garry P Morgan <Garry.Morgan at colorado.edu <mailto:Garry.Morgan at colorado.edu>> wrote:
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>>>>> Hello all,
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>>>>> i’m looking for some info on the optimal dose rate for acquiring K3 movie stacks.  i would appreciate it if any of you could send me your optimum acquisition parameters for imaging cry-samples for SPA…ie, dose rate, best frame rate/number of frames, etc.
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>>>>> i’m also trying to figure out how to setup my low dose so that we have parallel illumination for our record images (on an FEI Tecnai F20). the problem i see is that in microprobe the beam is spread much too wide to image/expose a single hole at a time at our record mag. is it advisable to work in nano probe to get a smaller beam that is parallel? any advice on this would be appreciated.
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>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Garry
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