Continuous tilt electron diffraction recording use Ceta or Ceta-D camera and TFS scopes¶

Micro-ED involves recording 3D crystal electron diffraction pattern during a continuous stage tilt. Leginon implementation of this application includes the listed components below and is available by using myami-ed branch until it is officially added to future release. As is, it is only fully implemented for TFS Ceta or Ceta-D camera.

Since many of the feature required here are not available through Standard or Advanced TEM Scripting from TFS, AutoIt scripts are used in several places.

Components of the feature¶

1. Diffraction mode TEM instrument
2. Beamstop control: achieved by AutoIt Scripts BeamstopIn and BeamstopOut
3. Rolling-shutter movie acquisition using TIA interface
4. Data conversion and upload of the movies into Leginon database and crystallography format
5. MSI-Diffr application
6. Camera length calibration

Installation (assuming that you've already have Leginon installation).¶

1. Check that you have access to Advanced TEM Scripting (frame-saving upgrade not needed).
2. Install or set environment to use git branch myami-ed or current myami-beta on TFS microscope with Ceta camera as well as your leginon linux box.
3. import updated Calibrations application (see Steps_involved_in_the_installation)
4. import MSI-diffraction and settings from your_myami/leginon/applications (see general description of Steps_involved_in_the_installation regarding importing application and additional settings for the application)
5. Setup Diffraction mode TEM instrument
6. Setup Ceta to use Advanced TEM Scripting
7. AutoIt program and script compilation

Usage¶

Check these before you start:¶

1. Confirm that instruments.cfg is properly set up to use feicam for Ceta camera. Especially if you use Falcon camera on the same instrument for imaging.
2. Open TUI. Select and insert BM-Ceta in the camera tab. Confirm that tui_acquire.au3 validation items are set correctly.
3. Make sure TIA window is available and the Export Series shortcut is shown as required by TiaExportSeries.au3

Start MSI-DIffr application and assign client as required.¶

Setup df preset¶

Grid atlas collection¶

1. Select gr preset to scope, with flucam showing the grid and aperture, draw on the computer screen the location of the centerred small C2 aperture.
2. Select a larger C2 aperture for grid atlas collection.
3. collect grid atlas.
4. Reselect the small C2 aperture. Make sure it is still centered.

Queue up potential crystals¶

1. Pick square and then pick "hole" for intermediate mag image of potential crystals. (This is no different from any other MSI application).
2. Submit preview targets in "DExposure Targeting" node for a small rotation image and confirm whether it diffracts or not.
3. Submit the good crystal positions as acquisition targets into the queue in "DExposure Targeting" node. No focus target is needed.
4. If needed, modify "DExposure" settings for start, range, and speed of the tilt.
5. Click "process queue" tool to start collection