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TWO-DIMENSIONAL Fourier synthesis is a most useful tool in the hands of the crystal analyst. A Patterson1 synthesis, which uses observed intensities directly, is the only way of summarising in one picture all the information contained in a set of intensities, and at the very least it is a useful aid in the guessing of probable structures. Further, once an approximate structure has been obtained, a method of successive Fourier syntheses of the ordinary type introducing more and more F's as the signs become known will enable parameters to be found which are the best possible values obtainable from the data involved.
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BEEVERS, C., LIPSON, H. A Numerical Method for Two-dimensional Fourier Synthesis. Nature 137, 825–826 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137825a0
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