Abstract: Cryo-electron microscopy is a technique in structural biology for discovering/determining the 3D structure of small molecules. A key step in this process is detecting common lines of intersection between unknown embedded image planes. We intrinsically characterize such common lines in terms of the unembedded geometric data detected in experiments. We show these common lines form a semi-algebraic set, i.e., they are defined by polynomial equalities and inequalities. These polynomials are low degree and, using techniques from spherical geometry, we explicitly derive them in this paper.
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