High-speed single-crystal television diffractometer (software)

Area-detector diffractometers make possible almost ideal diffraction experiments. Until recently the performance of such instruments has been limited in practice by the available software. This general account discusses an unconventional way of indexing a lattice which is more appropriate for the calculations needed with normal-beam rotation geometry, and asserts the need to perform a continuous 'real-time' adaptive refinement to monitor the condition of the crystal and the detector. (orig.)