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Item _em_map.handedness_method


Description

     The method used to determine the hand of the virus.
      The hand is fixed for the reconstruction by combining the
      projections in a consistent way. Information gleaned from
      pairs of images of tilted particles must be used to validate a
      particular choice of hand. 

Category

em_map

Mandatory Code

no

Data Type Code

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