Sentence examples for wedge of information from inspiring English sources
Indeed, a limited tilt range results in a large 'missing wedge' of information in the Fourier space of the object.
Unless tilt series are taken of pillar samples or individual particles and using a sample holder which allows full rotation without obstructions, there will always be a missing wedge of information for which to account.
This "missing wedge" of information results in an anisotropic PSF that is elongated in the z direction.
This is an effect of the missing wedge of information in the tomogram, which blurs out map features perpendicular to the electron beam, rendering the lipid bilayer in effect invisible (Penczek and Frank, 2006).
The lack of detail in the membrane region is unlikely to be caused by the missing wedge as we have observed a similar phenomenon in sub-tomogram averages of other membrane proteins, which have no missing wedge of information, and in single-particle maps when the resolution does not extend beyond 15 Å.
The resolution of our sub-tomogram average is about 1.5× better in the x y plane than the z direction due to the single orientation of F1Fo ATP synthase particles in the crystal relative to the missing wedge of information (Radermacher, 1988).
It is worth mentioning that often the 3D information obtained from tomography analyses suffers from the missing wedge artifact due to a lack of information for high rotation angles.
Each crossing point between two perpendicular wires, with about 100 of the molecular switches wedged in between, is the storage location of one bit of information.
Long-duration seminars may dump a lot of information on participants, but they can also drive a wedge between employer and employee needs.
Electron tomograms will therefore be missing information from a 40 60° wedge of space, resulting in some distortion to the 3D map).
