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Getting the angular dependency of scattering

To quantify the scattering patterns we first apply a so-called inverse Abel transform to our absorption images. This undoes the effect projecting the 3D distribution of scattered particles onto a plane (see 3.2.1). Knowing the 3D distribution we can count how many particles which were scattered out in a certain solid angle. We can then get the probability density $p(\theta)$ of being scattered in a given angle $\theta$ . We present $p(\theta)$ as a polar plot

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