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h1. Troubles with Targeting 





 * <link linkend="atlassmall">Grid Atlas is too small to see the details</link> 


 * <link linkend="atlasbad">Grid Atlas is not well patched</link> 


 * <link linkend="atlassmall">Grid Atlas displayed in Leginon and the Viewers on the web 
 are not the samei</link> 


 * <link linkend="atlassamelabel">Grid Atlas displays incorrect current 
 position</link> 


 * <link linkend="toffinsamedir">Targeting is consistently off in the same direction and 
 distance</link> 


 * <link linkend="toffindiffdir">Targeting is consistently off in opposite direction from 
 where you pick</link> 


 * <link linkend="toffinconsist">Targeting is off in an inconsistant way or goes off again 
 in the next run after correction</link> 


 * <link linkend="toffawayfromc">Targeting is off more for targets away from the center of 
 the image</link> 


 * <link linkend="hlfindfail">Auto hole finder fails to find holes with good ice after set 
 up</link> 


 * <link linkend="no_broken">There is no broken square for reference target</link> 







 h2. Grid mosaic is too small to see the details 





 <title>Why:</title> 
 * The image scale for creating mosaic is set too small. 








 <title>Solution:</title> 
 *    Leginon/Square Targeting/Mosaic Settings> Change "Scale Image" to a larger 
 size 


 *    Leginon/Square Targeting/Mosaic Settings> Click "Apply" and then "Create" the 
 mosaic atlas. 









 h2. Grid mosaic is not patched together well 





 <title>Commonly Why:</title> 
 * LM mode U-center defocus not set to 0. 


 * LM mode rotation center is off. 


 * Bad stage position matrix calibration 








 <title>Solutions:</title> 
 *    Correct the alignemnt error or redo <link linkend="mcal_st_pos">stage position 
 matrix calibration</link> 


 *    Acquire a new atlas 
 *    Leginon/Grid Targeting/Setting> Enter a new label 


 *    Leginon/Grid Targeting> Click "Calculate Atlas" 


 *    Leginon/Grid Targeting> Click "Submit Targets" (play icon) to begin 
 acquiring the atlas. 


 *    Leginon/Square Targeting> Follow the atlas progress in the 
 display. 












 h2. Grid mosaic display in Leginon is different from that of the 
 Web Viewer 





 <title>Why:</title> 
 * The goniometer does not reach the intended position due to ,most commonly, a pole 
 touch error that temporaily disables the goniometer. 


 * The calibration used to move to the target in "Grid" node is not the same as the 
 calibration parameter used to create the mosaic in "Square Targeting" node are not 
 consistent. 








 <title>Solution:</title> 
 *    Other than fix the goniometer, Targeting on these mosaic can still work if the 
 error does not occur frequently enough to interfere drift management. 


 *    Check "Leginon/Grid/Settings/Use ?? to move to target" against "Leginon/Square 
 Targeting/Mosaic Settings/CalibrationParameters". The latter should be changed if the 
 mosaic is already acquire and what seen on the Web is better than what is in Leginon. 
 The mosaic atlas can be recreated by clicking the "Create" button. 








 <title>More Explanation:</title> 
 *    The web tools and Leginon main program use different mechanism to paste together 
 the atlas. 


 The targets Leginon "Grid Targeting" node send out is an even spaced raster. 
 "Grid" node uses that information and the move type set for the node to calculate the 
 goniometer position it needs to aim for in order to get to where it really wants to go 
 to and acquires the image. It is done this way so that it can handle any complex move 
 type. For example, lets say that the model is p=x^2 so that to get to position p' from 
 0, the goniometer x needs to be sqrt(p'). "Grid Targeting" send the target as p', 
 "Grid" figure out that x'=sqrt(p') and send the x value to the scope to move. 


 When it needs to display the atlas in "Square targeting", Leginon uses the actual 
 goniometer position of each tile image back calculates the targeted position according 
 to the model. This has the advantage that if there is a problem with the goniometer 
 and the stage does not move to where it needs to (such as after a pole touch error), 
 the tile image will appear at its actual position. In the example above, the image 
 will appear at p' from the image because from the goniometer position x'=sqrt(p'), 
 p=x^2=(sqrt(p'))^2. 


 The webtool, however, pastes the atlas together using the targets saved from "Grid 
 Targeting". It does not care what you have set in "Square Targeting" node. Therefore, 
 it will always look right, unless of course the stage did not move to the target when 
 it acquired the image. 









 h2. Commonly Why: 


 * You did not initiate refresh by clicking the "current position" tool 


 * More than one atlas is of the same label. 








 <title>Solutions:</title> 
 *    No user correction can be made with atlas of the same label. It requires 
 modification of the database. 


 *    Acquire a new atlas with a different label 









 h2. Targeting is consistently off in the same direction and 
 distance 



 Commonly Why: Image shifts in "hl", "sq", or "gr"presets are not aligned with the 
 presets at higher mags. The low mag "sq" preset is especially prone to this problem. 


 ***Important: When the targeted image is off, it normally means the image shift of the 
 preset where the target comes from is off. That is, if hole images appear off, it is not the 
 image shift of "hl" preset that needs correcting but that of "sq" preset. 


 Solution: 




 *    Pause before next hole or square by clicking Hole/Toolbar>Pause button or 
 Square/Toolbar>Pause button, respectively. Which one to pause depends on what is 
 the next target. 


 *    Center the grid at a location that can be recognized by either: 




 *    Move to the alignment position: 


 (It may be necessary to adjust the position at the scope after this since 
 the goniometer can not move back to a position as accurately as we need 
 it). 




 *    Leginon/Navigation/Stage Location> Choose the name for the stored 
 alignment position ("align" if you have been following the setup check 
 list). and send it "To Scope" 






 *    scope> move the specimen to a position on the same square, either on a 
 recognizable object or burn a good hole through ice as preparation for lower mag 
 preset image shift correction 






 *    Leginon/Presets Manager> send "fa" or other high mag preset with (0.0,0.0) 
 image shift "To Scope" 


 *    Leginon/Navigation> "Acquire" an image. The recognizable object or the burn 
 hole should be at the center of the image, if not move the grid at the 
 microscope. 


 *    Check, adjust, and save the lower mag preset image shift in hole and sq 




 *    Leginon/Presets Manager> send the preset "To Scope". 


 *    Leginon/Navigation> "Acquire" an image in the Camera 
 Configuration. 


 *    Leginon/Navigation> "Navigate" by "Image Shift" to center on the 
 reference object or the burn mark made in the high mag presets. 


 *    Leginon/Presets Manager> save the new image shift by retrieving them 
 "From Scope" 


 *"Navigate" means selecting the navigate tool on the top right of image 
 display and then left-clicking the location of the new center that is translated 
 by the given TEM Parameter. 






 *    Leginon/Drift Manager/Toolbar>"Declare Drift"(declare drift icon) to force 
 target shift check at the next possible time point. This will correct further 
 targeting. 


 *    "Continue" data collection on next hole or square target by clicking 
 Hole/Toolbar> "Continue" button or Square/> "Continue" button, 
 respectively. 






 Still not working: Your high mag "fc", "en", or "ef" has an image shift other than that 
 of "fa". The latter is commonly used in image shift alignment of presets. 


 Solution: 




 *    Leginon/Presets Manager> select individual suspect to check its image shift x 
 and y, change them to the correct values but not send the preset to Scope. 









 h2. Targeting is consistently off in opposite direction from 
 where you pick 



 Commonly Why: Camera configuration is different in calibration and now. 




 *    All your targeting would be wrong. "Abort" target processing in the Target 
 Watcher of "squares" and "holes". 


 *    If you use the Tietz camera: scope/Leginon/Instrument/Camera> check your 
 camera configuration. mirror should be ['vertical']. Change it if not, and "Set" the 
 configuration. 


 *    If you use the Gatan camera: scope/Digital Micrograph> check your camera 
 configuration. 


 *    Leginon/Presets Manager> send "sq" or "grid" "To Scope" 


 *    Leginon/Navigation> "Acquire" an image with "Use this configuration" Unchecked 
 in the Camera Configuration. 


 *    Leginon/Navigation> "Navigate" by "Image Shift", "Beam Shift", or "Stage 
 Position" to center on a reference object or burn mark made in the high mag presets. 
 This is to check if it behaves correctly now. 


 *    Select targets again, or, if atlas is wrong, republish the target list to make 
 the atlas. 









 h2. Hole targeting is inconsistently off or goes bad in the 
 next run after correction 



 Commonly Why: Not well understood but may be related to microscopy alignment and 
 settings such as normalization of lenses. up to 1.5 um error has been observed even with a 
 reasonable calibration. The following solutions only works some times. 




 *    Leginon/Drift Manager>"Declare Drift" to force correction for possible 
 drift. 


 *    Repeat image shift correction alignment <link linkend="toffinsamedir">as in the 
 case when targeting is consistently off</link>. 


 *    Ignore the first targetted '"hole" in the "squares" image. The second and on are 
 more consistent when there is a hysteresis problem. 


 *    Repeat <link linkend="gonm_m_only">"Mag Only" Modeled Stage Calibration</link> at 
 the "square" preset. 









 h2. Hole targeting is off more when the image shift target is 
 away from the center of the image 



 Commonly Why: Not well understood but may be related to microscopy image shift causes 
 different physical movement at different magnifications since Leginon uses the image shift 
 calibration at the lower mag where the target comes from to determine the required image 
 shift at the higher mag. 




 No current solution 





 h2. Automatic hole finding fails to pick up good ice thickness 
 after set up 



 Commonly Why: 
 * Electron beam intensity has changed 


 * Blob threshold is not inclusive enough to tolerate variations 


 * Ice contaimination 





 Solutions 
 * Monitor electron beam with a saved location with an empty hole in navigator and 
 check the recorded intensity periodically and adjust zero ice thickness 
 accordingly. 


 * Reduce Blob threshold in Alias nodes of the Hole Finder. 


 * Make sure the anticontamination cryo box is properly inserted on the scope. 


 * Remove the film camera from the scope if you don't need film. 








 h2. No broken grid square for dose measurement and ZLP alignment 
 (MSI-Tomography) 



 Solution 
 * Burn a hole clear of ice and pick it as the reference target in "Hole Targeting" 
 or "Tomography Targeting" 







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