These scripts allow calculating the microfibril angle from 2D Wide-angle x-ray diffraction data. In the first script ("conv_2Dto1DAz_v3-6-2020.py") the detector images are read using the FabIO library [1] and transformed into polar images. The polar images are then azimuthally averaged around the region of interest, in this case, the 200 diffraction peak to obtain a 1D azimuthal profile. In the second script ("Gpk_MFAcalc-2DpyAzv4.py"), the 1D profile is then corrected for background contributions, and fitted with three Gaussian peaks to obtain the microfibril angle of the wood sample. [2] The scripts are written in Python 3 and depend on the following libraries: FabIO, numpy, matplotlib, pandas and lmfit.

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