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Promoted by the advent of coherent synchrotron light sources, phase contrast tomography allows to resolve three-dimensional variations of an unknown sample's complex refractive index from scattering intensities recorded at different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Simon Maretzke

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has become indispensable for visualizing samples with low absorption contrast. In this regard, speckle-based techniques have shown significant advantages in spatial resolution, phase sensitivity, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Zhi Qiao , Xianbo Shi , Yudong Yao , Michael J. Wojcik , Luca Rebuffi , Mathew J. Cherukara , Lahsen Assoufid

Phase retrieval, the problem of recovering lost phase information from measured intensity alone, is an inverse problem that is widely faced in various imaging modalities ranging from astronomy to nanoscale imaging. The current process of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Henry Chan , Youssef S. G. Nashed , Saugat Kandel , Stephan Hruszkewycz , Subramanian Sankaranarayanan , Ross J. Harder , Mathew J. Cherukara

In the last five decades, iterative phase retrieval methods draw large amount of interest across the research community as a non-interferometric approach to recover quantitative phase distributions from one (or more) intensity measurement.…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-21 Nathaniel Hai , Joseph Rosen

Phase retrieval (PR), also sometimes referred to as quadratic sensing, is a problem that occurs in numerous signal and image acquisition domains ranging from optics, X-ray crystallography, Fourier ptychography, sub-diffraction imaging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Namrata Vaswani

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for image phase retrieval, i.e., for recovering complex-valued images from the amplitudes of noisy linear combinations (often the Fourier transform) of the sought complex images. The algorithm is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-19 Joshin P. Krishnan , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Vladimir Katkovnik

To obtain spatial information about an arbitrary object in x-ray structure analysis, the standard method is to measure the intensity in the far field, i.e., the first-order photon correlation function of the coherently scattered x-ray…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 M. Bojer , J. Eckert , S. Karl , S. Richter , J. von Zanthier

New lensless diffractive X-ray technic for micro-scale imaging of biological tissue is based on quantitative phase retrieval schemes. By incorporating refraction, this method yields improved contrast compared to purely absorption-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Victor Palamodov

We present a convex relaxation-based algorithm for large-scale general phase retrieval problems. General phase retrieval problems include i.a. the estimation of the phase of the optical field in the pupil plane based on intensity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Reinier Doelman , H. Thao Nguyen , Michel Verhaegen

This paper considers the robust phase retrieval problem, which can be cast as a nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problem. We propose a new inexact proximal linear algorithm with the subproblem being solved inexactly. Our contributions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Zhong Zheng , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a signal x from the amplitude |Ax| of linear measurements. We cast the phase retrieval problem as a non-convex quadratic program over a complex phase vector and formulate a tractable relaxation (called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Irène Waldspurger , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Stéphane Mallat

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

We propose a flexible convex relaxation for the phase retrieval problem that operates in the natural domain of the signal. Therefore, we avoid the prohibitive computational cost associated with "lifting" and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

In Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging (BCDI), Phase Retrieval of highly strained crystals is often challenging with standard iterative algorithms. This computational obstacle limits the potential of the technique as it precludes the…

Phase retrieval is the nonlinear inverse problem of recovering a true signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements. It arises in many applications such as astronomical imaging, X-Ray crystallography, microscopy, and more. The problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Rohun Agrawal , Oscar Leong

Limited-angle computerized tomography stands for one of the most difficult challenges in imaging. Although it opens the way to faster data acquisition in industry and less dangerous scans in medicine, standard approaches, such as the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Bernadette Hahn , Gael Rigaud , Richard Schmähl

Phase retrieval (PR) concerns the recovery of complex phases from complex magnitudes. We identify the connection between the difficulty level and the number and variety of symmetries in PR problems. We focus on the most difficult far-field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhong Zhuang , David Yang , Felix Hofmann , David Barmherzig , Ju Sun

Reconstructing a signal from squared linear (rank-one quadratic) measurements is a challenging problem with important applications in optics and imaging, where it is known as phase retrieval. This paper proposes two new phase retrieval…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Cheng Qian , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Kejun Huang , Lei Huang , H. C. So

Holographic coherent X-ray imaging enables nanoscale imaging of biological cells and tissues, rendering both phase and absorption contrast, i.e. real and imaginary parts of the refractive index. Unlike the standard model, which assumes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Thorsten Hohage , Milad Karimi , Björn Müller

We demonstrate the use of a phase retrieval technique for propagation-based phase contrast neutron imaging with a polychromatic beam. This enables imaging samples with low absorption contrast and/or improving the signal-to-noise ratio to…