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Funding for the imaging camera, tomography reconstruction hardware and software was via an STFC Facilities Development Grant secured by the University of Manchester. Finally, we thank all Diamond staff, past and present, involved in the beamline��s design, construction Selleckchem LEE011 and commissioning.""Synchrotron X-ray sources are versatile tools for the study of electronic and structural properties of materials and are employed in a wide range of applications stretching from biology and chemistry to physics and materials sciences. Time-gated experiments use the pulsed nature of synchrotron X-rays, generated by the short electron bunches in storage rings. Such stroboscopic pump�Cprobe or time-of-flight experiments often demand X-ray pulses with high peak Selleck SAR405838 power, but also require low to medium repetition rates, from single shot up to 1?MHz, well below the natural repetition rate of synchrotron sources. The temporal spacing between X-ray pulses is typically of the order of just a few nanoseconds. Pseudo-single-bunch kick-and-cancel (PSB-KAC) is a new operational mode at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) that provides full timing and repetition rate control for single X-ray pulses while being fully transparent to other users of synchrotron radiation (Sun et al., 2012 ?, 2013 ?). In this paper we discuss the first use of this new operational mode in measurements of the picosecond dynamics of spin crossover molecules, and in single-shot exposures of an X-ray spectrograph-coupled streak camera. We achieve a considerable reduction in the background and an improvement in signal to noise. PSB-KAC also enables usage of low-noise charge integrating detectors in time-resolved experiments, for example slow-scan CCD cameras or large-area photodiodes. We begin with a very brief overview of PSB-KAC and of a typical experimental setup utilizing this mode, followed by the discussion of the experimental results. In the final section, we discuss details of the PSB-KAC data collection setup and the measured noise suppression at beamline 6.0.2. 2.?The ��pseudo-single-bunch kick-and-cancel�� technique ? The idea behind pseudo-single-bunch (PSB) operation is to use a high-repetition-rate (MHz) short-pulse (Resiquimod train (Sun et al., 2012 ?, 2013 ?). By blocking the light from the multi-bunch train at a collimator in the beamline, only light from the camshaft bunch reaches the experiment (Fig. 1 ?). Periodically exciting the kicker sends the camshaft bunch on an oscillating trajectory, while the multi-bunch train is not affected. By choosing the right kicker pulse pattern and storage ring lattice, the camshaft bunch can first be displaced to a different orbit and then kicked back to its original orbit within a few turns.