Bruker Axs Gmbh

Peter Laggner

Roger David Durst

Bruce L Becker

Sergei A Medved

Aden Hodzic

Heinz Amenitsch

Benedetta Marmiroli

Walter Tritthart

Roger Durst

Sergei Medved

An apparatus for supporting a liquid sample for measuring an intensity of X-ray radiation scattered by the liquid sample is configured such as to allow the X-ray radiation to impinge along a first direction () through the first support member onto the liquid sample and to leave the liquid sample through the second member along a second direction () different from the first direction to be detected by a detector. Further, a system for measuring an intensity of X-ray radiation scattered by a liquid sample and corresponding methods are provided.

Apparatus and method for supporting a liquid sample for measuring scattering of electromagnetic radiation

A detector for a small-angle x-ray diffraction system uses curved readout strips shaped to correspond to the expected intensity distribution of x-rays scattered by the system. This expected intensity distribution may be a series of concentric circles, and each of the strips has a shape that approximates a section of an annulus. The strips may be positioned on a substrate such that a center of curvature of the curved strips is located along an edge of a readout region within which the strips are located or, alternatively, at a geometric center of the readout region. The detector may have a signal readout system that uses a delay line or, alternatively, a multichannel readout system. The detector may make use of electron generation via interaction of the diffracted x-ray beam with a gas in a gas chamber, or through interaction of the diffracted beam with a semiconductor material.

One-dimensional x-ray detector with curved readout strips

An apparatus for analyzing a granulate for producing a pharmaceutical product has a data receiving unit adapted for receiving X-ray diffraction data indicative of a scattering of X-rays irradiated onto the granulate, a processor unit adapted for processing the X-ray diffraction data to derive information indicative of a compressibility and/or a dissolution characteristic of the granulate, and a control unit adapted for controlling a process of producing a pharmaceutical product based on the derived information.

System for analyzing a granulate for producing a pharmaceutical product

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