The effects of particle and experimental geometries on the scattered electric field correlation function are studied in detail for a dilute solution of cylindrically symmetric anisotropic particles, in the Rayleigh–Debye approximation. Previous results for this system are simplified considerably through the use of the spherical harmonic coupling rule and the scattering angle and polarization dependence of the structure factors is computed explicitly. Expressions containing the particle form factor contributions to the first two dynamical term weighting coefficients are given and the interpretation of experiments which show the complexity of the anisotropy is discussed in detail.
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