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This paper considers the question of recovering the phase of an object from intensity-only measurements, a problem which naturally appears in X-ray crystallography and related disciplines. We study a physically realistic setup where one can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Emmanuel Candes , Xiaodong Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Phase retrieval is at the heart of adaptive optics and modern high-resolution imaging. Without phase information, optical systems are limited to intensity-only measurements, hindering full reconstruction of object structures and wavefront…

X-ray near field holography has proven to be a powerful 2D and 3D imaging technique with applications ranging from biomedical research to material sciences. To reconstruct meaningful and quantitative images from the measurement intensities,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Jens Lucht , Leon M. Lohse , Thorsten Hohage , Tim Salditt

In a variety of fields, in particular those involving imaging and optics, we often measure signals whose phase is missing or has been irremediably distorted. Phase retrieval attempts to recover the phase information of a signal from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gilles Baechler , Miranda Kreković , Juri Ranieri , Amina Chebira , Yue M. Lu , Martin Vetterli

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In several applications the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Afonso S. Bandeira , Dustin G. Mixon

The mutual intensity and its equivalent phase-space representations quantify an optical field's state of coherence and are important tools in the study of light propagation and dynamics, but they can only be estimated indirectly from…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-16 Chenglong Bao , George Barbastathis , Hui Ji , Zuowei Shen , Zhengyun Zhang

Ptychographic Coherent Diffractive Imaging enables diffraction-limited imaging of nanoscale structures at extreme ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths, where high-quality image-forming optics are not available. However, its reliance on a set…

The phase unwrapping plays a key role in obtaining a ground-truth phase of the wrapped phase. High-accurate unwrapped phases are demanded in various research fields such as optical holography, optical diffraction tomography, and magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-08 Alim Yolalmaz , Jeroen Kalkman

The problem of phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of recovering a function from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform, naturally arises in various fields of physics, such as astronomy, radar, speech recognition, quantum mechanics and,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Philipp Grohs , Sarah Koppensteiner , Martin Rathmair

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

Phase retrieval is a problem encountered not only in speech and audio processing, but in many other fields such as optics. Iterative algorithms based on non-convex set projections are effective and frequently used for retrieving the phase…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Tal Peer , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

In this paper, we develop a novel phase retrieval approach to reconstruct x-ray differential phase shift induced by an object. A primary advantage of our approach is a higher-order accuracy over that with the conventional linear…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

In this paper, we propose the SPR (sparse phase retrieval) method, which is a new phase retrieval method for coherent x-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI). Conventional phase retrieval methods effectively solve the problem for high…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-03-29 Shiro Ikeda , Hidetoshi Kono

Phase retrieval deals with the estimation of complex-valued signals solely from the magnitudes of linear measurements. While there has been a recent explosion in the development of phase retrieval algorithms, the lack of a common interface…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Rohan Chandra , Ziyuan Zhong , Justin Hontz , Val McCulloch , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

We consider the problem of blind ptychography, that is the joint estimation of an unknown object and an illumination function from diffraction intensity measurements. In ptychography, diffraction measurements from neighboring regions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-04 Stefano Marchesini , Hau-Tieng Wu

We develop for the first time a mathematical framework in which the class of projection algorithms can be applied to high numerical aperture (NA) phase retrieval. Within this framework, we first analyze the basic steps of solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Nguyen Hieu Thao , Oleg Soloviev , Russell Luke , Michel Verhaegen

Multi-energy CT has long demonstrated its ability to enhance image quality with material decomposition. Yet, it has largely been limited to applications that already have high contrast. More recently, x-ray phase-contrast (XPC) imaging has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Giavanna Jadick , Patrick La Rivière

Phase diversity is a widefield aberration correction method that uses multiple images to estimate the phase aberration at the pupil plane of an imaging system by solving an optimization problem. This estimated aberration can then be used to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-03 Nikolaj Reiser , Min Guo , Hari Shroff , Patrick J. La Riviere

By profiting from recent developments in detector technologies, making it possible to access a stream of detection events with few-ns time resolutions, a new ptychographic workflow is established. This methodological framework, referred to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert , Arno Annys , Tamazouzt Chennit , Jo Verbeeck

We answer a number of open problems concerning phase retrieval and phase retrieval by projections. In particular, one main theorem classifies phase retrieval by projections via collections of sequences of vectors allowing norm retrieval.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Jameson Cahill , Peter G. Casazza , John Jasper , Lindsey M. Woodland