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In this chapter, we shall introduce Fourier series and show how they are used in structure analysis. This discussion leads naturally to the Patterson function and the very important heavy-atom and isomorphous replacement techniques for solving the phase problem.

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Ladd, M.F.C., Palmer, R.A. (1985). Methods in X-Ray Structure Analysis. II. In: Structure Determination by X-Ray Crystallography. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7939-7_6

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