diff --git a/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_entity_to_density.cc b/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_entity_to_density.cc
index 858740eeb9500d82ddcaa57d45bcbd0296ce0c80..24328ac747d3f477340e5d113bc9e4c590fdf03b 100644
--- a/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_entity_to_density.cc
+++ b/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_entity_to_density.cc
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ using namespace ost::mol::alg;
 
 
 #if OST_IMG_ENABLED
+
 #include <ost/mol/alg/entity_to_density.hh>
 
 //"thin wrappers" for default parameters
diff --git a/modules/mol/alg/pymod/wrap_mol_alg.cc b/modules/mol/alg/pymod/wrap_mol_alg.cc
index 14785ddf753a30194aa995ea0b195d56f08b9dcf..ce0be429c6afb0afd5b6b55b2252cc79d446dbbd 100644
--- a/modules/mol/alg/pymod/wrap_mol_alg.cc
+++ b/modules/mol/alg/pymod/wrap_mol_alg.cc
@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@
  * Author Juergen Haas
  */
 #include <boost/python.hpp>
+#include <ost/config.hh>
 using namespace boost::python;
 
 void export_svdSuperPose();
+
+#if OST_IMG_ENABLED
 void export_entity_to_density();
+#endif
 
 BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(_mol_alg)
 {
diff --git a/modules/mol/alg/src/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/mol/alg/src/CMakeLists.txt
index adb666c1bf47005b5654c94aa4f01ed7b0ec6def..242eea3d8f3a4c80f29909b3ecad313df10753f7 100644
--- a/modules/mol/alg/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/mol/alg/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ module(NAME mol_alg SOURCES ${OST_MOL_ALG_SOURCES}
        HEADER_OUTPUT_DIR ost/mol/alg
        DEPENDS_ON ${MOL_ALG_DEPS})
 
+copy_if_different("." "${STAGE_DIR}/share/openstructure"
+                  "atom_scattering_properties.txt" "ATOM_SCATTERING_PROPS"
+                  "ost_mol_alg")
diff --git a/modules/mol/alg/src/atom_scattering_properties.txt b/modules/mol/alg/src/atom_scattering_properties.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..107a71bdfe10092cc10075d82318c5b34ca6a0c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mol/alg/src/atom_scattering_properties.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// SCATTERING PROPERTIES OF ATOMS
+// (used by the entity_to_density_function of OST/OPENSTRUCTURE)
+// Columns from left to right: 1) Element Symbol 2) Atomic Weight 3) c parameter used to compute scattering factors 4-7) a1-a4 parameters 8-11) b1-b4 parameters.
+// Sources: parameters for scattering factors: it.iucr.org/ International tables for crystallography. First online edition (2006), Vol.C,Ch 6.1, pp. 554-595
+// Atomic Weights: www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/AtWt/ based on 2005 table published in Pure Appl. Chem., 78, 2051-2066 (2006) with 2007 changes
+Al          26.982        1.115100        6.420200        1.900200        1.593600        1.964600        3.038700        0.742600       31.547199       85.088600
+As          74.922        2.531000       16.672300        6.070100        3.431300        4.277900        2.634500        0.264700       12.947900       47.797199
+At         210.000       13.710800       35.316299       19.021099        9.498870        7.425180        0.685870        3.974580       11.382400       45.471500
+Au         196.967       12.065800       16.881901       18.591299       25.558201        5.860000        0.461100        8.621600        1.482600       36.395599
+B           10.812       -0.193200        2.054500        1.332600        1.097900        0.706800       23.218500        1.021000       60.349800        0.140300
+Be           9.012        0.038500        1.591900        1.127800        0.539100        0.702900       43.642700        1.862300      103.483002        0.542000
+Br          79.904        2.955700       17.178900        5.235800        5.637700        3.985100        2.172300       16.579599        0.260900       41.432800
+C           12.011        0.215600        2.310000        1.020000        1.588600        0.865000       20.843899       10.207500        0.568700       51.651199
+Ca          40.078        1.375100        8.626600        7.387300        1.589900        1.021100       10.442100        0.659900       85.748398      178.436996
+Cd         112.412        5.069400       19.221399       17.644400        4.461000        1.602900        0.594600        6.908900       24.700800       87.482498
+Cl          35.453       -9.557400       11.460400        7.196400        6.255600        1.645500        0.010400        1.166200       18.519400       47.778400
+Co          58.933        1.011800       12.284100        7.340900        4.003400        2.348800        4.279100        0.278400       13.535900       71.169197
+Cr          51.996        1.183200       10.640600        7.353700        3.324000        1.492200        6.103800        0.392000       20.262600       98.739899
+Cu          63.546        1.191000       13.337999        7.167600        5.615800        1.673500        3.582800        0.247000       11.396600       64.812599
+F           18.998        0.277600        3.539200        2.641200        1.517000        1.024300       10.282499        4.294400        0.261500       26.147600
+Fe          55.845        1.036900       11.769500        7.357300        3.522200        2.304500        4.761100        0.307200       15.353500       76.880501
+Ga          69.723        1.718900       15.235400        6.700600        4.359100        2.962300        3.066900        0.241200       10.780500       61.413498
+Gd         157.253        2.419600       25.070900       19.079800       13.851800        3.545450        2.253410        0.181951       12.933100      101.397995
+Ge          72.641        2.131300       16.081600        6.374700        3.706800        3.683000        2.850900        0.251600       11.446800       54.762501
+Hf         178.492        8.581540       29.143999       15.172600       14.758600        4.300130        1.832620        9.599899        0.275116       72.028999
+Hg         200.592       12.608900       20.680901       19.041700       21.657499        5.967600        0.545000        8.448400        1.572900       38.324600
+I          126.904        4.071200       20.147200       18.994900        7.513800        2.273500        4.347000        0.381400       27.765999       66.877602
+Ir         192.217       11.472200       27.304899       16.729599       15.611500        5.833770        1.592790        8.865530        0.417916       45.001099
+K           39.098        1.422800        8.218599        7.439800        1.051900        0.865900       12.794900        0.774800      213.186996       41.684097
+Li           6.941        0.037700        1.128200        0.750800        0.617500        0.465300        3.954600        1.052400       85.390503      168.261002
+Mg          24.305        0.858400        5.420400        2.173500        1.226900        2.307300        2.827500       79.261101        0.380800        7.193700
+Mn          54.938        1.089600       11.281900        7.357300        3.019300        2.244100        5.340900        0.343200       17.867399       83.754303
+Mo          95.962        4.387500        3.702500       17.235600       12.887600        3.742900        0.277200        1.095800       11.004000       61.658401
+N           14.007       11.528999       12.212600        3.132200        2.012500        1.166300        0.005700        9.893300       28.997499        0.582600
+Na          22.990        0.676000        4.762600        3.173600        1.267400        1.112800        3.285000        8.842199        0.313600      129.423996
+Ni          58.693        1.034100       12.837600        7.292000        4.443800        2.380000        3.878500        0.256500       12.176300       66.342102
+O           15.999        0.250800        3.048500        2.286800        1.546300        0.867000       13.277100        5.701100        0.323900       32.908897
+Os         190.233       11.000500       28.189400       16.154999       14.930500        5.675890        1.629030        8.979480        0.382661       48.164700
+P           30.974        1.114900        6.434500        4.179100        1.780000        1.490800        1.906700       27.157000        0.526000       68.164497
+Pb         207.210       13.411800       31.061699       13.063700       18.441999        5.969600        0.690200        2.357600        8.618000       47.257900
+Pd         106.421        5.265930       19.331900       15.501699        5.295370        0.605844        0.698655        7.989290       25.205200       76.898598
+Pt         195.085       11.688300       27.005899       17.763901       15.713100        5.783700        1.512930        8.811740        0.424593       38.610298
+Re         186.207       10.472000       28.762100       15.718900       14.556400        5.441740        1.671910        9.092270        0.350500       52.086098
+Rh         102.905        5.328000       19.295700       14.350100        4.734250        1.289180        0.751536        8.217580       25.874901       98.606201
+Ru         101.072        5.378740       19.267399       12.918200        4.863370        1.567560        0.808520        8.434669       24.799700       94.292801
+S           32.066        0.866900        6.905300        5.203400        1.437900        1.586300        1.467900       22.215099        0.253600       56.172001
+Sb         121.760        4.590900       19.641800       19.045500        5.037100        2.682700        5.303400        0.460700       27.907400       75.282501
+Se          78.963        2.840900       17.000599        5.819600        3.973100        4.354300        2.409800        0.272600       15.237200       43.816299
+Si          28.086        1.140700        6.291500        3.035300        1.989100        1.541000        2.438600       32.333698        0.678500       81.693695
+Sn         118.711        4.782100       19.188900       19.100500        4.458500        2.466300        5.830300        0.503100       26.890900       83.957100
+Ta         180.948        9.243540       29.202400       15.229300       14.513500        4.764920        1.773330        9.370460        0.295977       63.364399
+Te         127.603        4.352000       19.964399       19.013800        6.144870        2.523900        4.817420        0.420885       28.528400       70.840302
+U          238.029       13.396600       36.022800       23.412800       14.949100        4.188000        0.529300        3.325300       16.092699      100.612999
+V           50.942        1.219900       10.297100        7.351100        2.070300        2.057100        6.865700        0.438500       26.893799      102.477997
+W          183.841        9.887500       29.081800       15.430000       14.432700        5.119820        1.720290        9.225900        0.321703       57.056000
+Y           88.906        1.912130       17.775999       10.294600        5.726290        3.265880        1.402900       12.800600        0.125599      104.353996
+Zn          65.382        1.304100       14.074300        7.031800        5.162500        2.410000        3.265500        0.233300       10.316299       58.709702
+Zr         91.2240        2.069290       17.876499       10.948000        5.417320        3.657210        1.276180       11.916000        0.117622       87.662697
+