Data files

In this section, we describe the following file formats:

Raw data files (.nc): With the Stony Brook apparatus at ALS 9.0.1, we are writing raw data files using the NetCDF format as described in Sec. 2.1. Oftentimes one will combine many of these files together ( use background subtraction, etc. using Henry Chapman's merger program as described in Sec. 3.2;

Files used in iterative reconstructions: HDF 5 files with groups for the assembled diffraction intensity "/adi", support mask "/spt", and complex iterate "/itn" files. These files are described in Sec. 2.2, and C routines for reading and writing them are contained in the subroutine library dm_fileio.c (see Sec. 2.4).