The need to record low-angle-scattering X-ray fibre diagrams from muscle with millisecond time resolution drove the use of synchrotron radiation as an X-ray light source. The first smudgy diffraction patterns were obtained from a slice of insect flight muscle. Out of this grew the EMBL Outstation at DESY.
1P142 X-ray diffraction from insect flight muscle with exchanged contractile proteins(10. Muscle,Poster,The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan(BSJ2014))