Automatic measurement of intereference photographs from the ultracentrifuge

Abstract With a computer-linked densitometer and an algorithm built around the Fourier transform, it is possible to automate the reading of Rayleigh interference patterns such as those obtained from an analytical ultracentrifuge. Measurements of fringe position are at least as precise as data collected manually.

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