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Ptychography is a popular technique to achieve diffraction limited resolution images of a two or three dimensional sample using high frame rate detectors. We introduce a relaxation of common projection algorithms to account for…

X-ray ptychography utilizes overlapping illuminations to reconstruct the object's phase and absorption signal with spatial resolutions much smaller than the focus size. Usually, the illumination overlap is chosen to be between 50% and 60%…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-29 Felix Wittwer , Peter Modregger

X-ray ptychography is a cutting edge imaging technique providing ultra-high spatial resolutions. In ptychography, phase retrieval, i.e., the recovery of a complex valued signal from intensity-only measurements, is enabled by exploiting a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Felix Wittwer , Peter Modregger

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an extremely powerful method for resolving structural details of large biomolecular complexes. However, challenging problems in single-particle methods remain open because of (1) the low…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-12 Shengnan Lyu , Christian Wülker , Yuqing Pan , Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jianhao Zheng , Yilin Cai , Gregory S. Chirikjian

The paper presents alternative statistical methods for biological dosimetry, such as the Bayesian and Monte Carlo method. The classical Gaussian and robust Bayesian fit algorithms for the linear, linear-quadratic as well as saturated and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-08 Krzysztof Wojciech Fornalski

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is a promising technology that has shown a number of clinical advantages over conventional X-ray CT, such as improved material identification, artifact suppression, etc. For proton therapy treatment…

We demonstrate that in situ coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), which harnesses the coherent interference between a strong and a weak beam illuminating a static and dynamic structure, can be a very dose-efficient imaging method. At low…

Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) is an increasingly popular technique for elucidating the three-dimensional structure of proteins and other biologically significant complexes at near-atomic resolution. It is an imaging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Amit Singer , Fred J. Sigworth

Ptychography provides high dose efficiency images that can reveal light elements next to heavy atoms. However, despite ptychography having an otherwise single signed contrast transfer function, contrast reversals can occur when the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 C. Gao , C. Hofer , T. J. Pennycook

Cone-beam breast computed tomography (CT) provides true 3D breast images with isotropic resolution and high-contrast information, detecting calcifications as small as a few hundred microns and revealing subtle tissue differences. However,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Wenxiang Cong , Hongming Shan , Xiaohua Zhang , Shaohua Liu , Ruola Ning , Ge Wang

We present a method that lowers the dose required for a ptychographic reconstruction by adaptively scanning the specimen, thereby providing the required spatial information redundancy in the regions of highest importance. The proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Marcel Schloz , Johannes Müller , Thomas C. Pekin , Wouter Van den Broek , Christoph T. Koch

Partial transfer absorption imaging (PTAI) of ultracold atoms allows for repeated and minimally-destructive measurements of an atomic ensemble. Here, we present a reconstruction technique based on PTAI that can be used to piece together the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-12 C. Mordini , D. Trypogeorgos , L. Wolswijk , G. Lamporesi , G. Ferrari

In this article, we propose a phase I-II design in two stages for the combination of molecularly targeted therapies. The design is motivated by a published case study that combines a MEK and a PIK3CA inhibitors; a setting in which higher…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-21 José L. Jiménez , Mourad Tighiouart

Although defocus can be used to generate partial phase contrast in transmission electron microscope images, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can be further improved by the development of phase plates which increase contrast by applying a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jeremy J. Axelrod , Jessie T. Zhang , Petar N. Petrov , Robert M. Glaeser , Holger Mueller

This paper presents an efficient Bayesian framework for solving nonlinear, high-dimensional model calibration problems. It is based on a Variational Bayesian formulation that aims at approximating the exact posterior by means of solving an…

Applications · Statistics 2015-11-02 Isabell M. Franck , P. S. Koutsourelakis

Manipulating the shape of a liquid droplet is essential for a wide range of applications in medicine and industry. However, existing methods are typically limited to generating simple shapes, such as ellipses, or rely on predefined…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 P. A. Diluka Harischandra , Quan Zhou

X-ray microtomography at synchrotron sources is fundamentally limited by the high radiation dose applied to the samples, which restricts investigations to non-native tissue states and thereby compromises the biological relevance of the…

Efficient optimization of molecules with targeted properties remains a significant challenge due to the vast size and discrete nature of chemical compound space. Conventional machine-learning-based optimization approaches typically require…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Yun-Wen Mao , Roman V. Krems

Cellular electron cryo-tomography enables the 3D visualization of cellular organization in the near-native state and at submolecular resolution. However, the contents of cellular tomograms are often complex, making it difficult to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Xiangrui Zeng , Miguel Ricardo Leung , Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai , Min Xu

Multislice electron ptychography (MEP) is an inverse imaging technique that computationally reconstructs the highest-resolution images of atomic crystal structures from diffraction patterns. Available algorithms often solve this inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Christian K. Belardi , Chia-Hao Lee , Yingheng Wang , Justin Lovelace , Kilian Q. Weinberger , David A. Muller , Carla P. Gomes