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In this study we explore the possibility to use deep learning for the reconstruction of phase images from 4D scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) data. The process can be divided into two main steps. First, the complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-15 Thomas Friedrich , Chu-Ping Yu , Jo Verbeeck , Sandra Van Aert

Numerous physical phase plates (PP) for phase-contrast enhancement in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have been proposed and studied with the hole-free or Volta PP having a high impact and interest in recent years. This study is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-25 Simon Hettler , Raul Arenal

Zernike's phase contrast microscopy (PCM) is among the most widely used techniques for observing phase objects, but it lacks quantitative nature, as it cannot directly provide phase information. Current methods for computationally…

We propose differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging using energy-filtered electrons to image the magnetic properties of materials at the atomic scale. Compared to DPC measurements with elastic electrons, our simulations predict about two…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-02 Devendra Singh Negi , Peter A. van Aken , Jan Rusz

In differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (DPC-STEM), variability in dynamical diffraction resulting from changes in sample thickness and local crystal orientation (due to sample bending) can produce contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-06 T. Mawson , A. Nakamura , T. C. Petersen , N. Shibata , H. Sasaki , D. M. Paganin , M. J. Morgan , S. D. Findlay

Differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging plays an important role in the family of quantitative phase measurement. However, the reconstruction algorithm for quantitative DPC (qDPC) imaging is not yet optimized, as it does not incorporate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Shuhe Zhang , Tao Peng , Zeyu Ke , Meng Shao , Tos T. J. M. Berendschot , Jinhua Zhou

The contrast transfer function (CTF) is widely used to evaluate phase retrieval methods in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), including center-of-mass imaging, parallax imaging, direct ptychography, and iterative…

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 review article fundamentals of aberration corrected phase contrast transmission electron microscopy for the structural characterization of materials at atomic length scale is presented. The word structure entails atomic arrangement…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Ranjan Datta , Sneha Kobri M. , Sudip Mahato

Diffusion models have demonstrated their utility as learned priors for solving various inverse problems. However, most existing approaches are limited to linear inverse problems. This paper exploits the efficient and unsupervised posterior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Figen S. Oktem

The transmission electron microscope facilitates the highest-resolution imaging of any instrument ever created, and its limiting factor is no longer spatial resolution but dose efficiency. Low electron doses avoid sample damage but produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Georgia Channing , Debora Keller , Marta D. Rossell , Philip Torr , Stig Helveg , Henrik Eliasson

The challenge of imaging low-density objects in an electron microscope without causing beam damage is significant in modern TEM. This is especially true for life science imaging, where the sample, rather than the instrument, still…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-29 Francisco Vega Ibáñez , Jo Verbeeck

Electron tomography is a technique used in both materials science and structural biology to image features well below optical resolution limit. In this work, we present a new algorithm for reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 David Ren , Michael Chen , Laura Waller , Colin Ophus

Companion paper [118] developed a powerful \emph{Random duality theory} (RDT) based analytical program to statistically characterize performance of \emph{descending} phase retrieval algorithms (dPR) (these include all variants of gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Mihailo Stojnic

We present differential phase-contrast optical coherence tomography (DPC-OCT) with two transversally separated probing beams to sense phase gradients in various directions by employing a rotatable Wollaston prism. In combination with a…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-11 Bettina Heise , David Stifter

Deep learning-based reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET) data has gained increasing attention in recent years. While these methods achieve fast reconstruction,concerns remain regarding quantitative accuracy and the presence…

Phase-contrast imaging is an emerging technology that may increase the signal-difference-to-noise ratio in medical imaging. One of the most promising phase-contrast techniques is Talbot interferometry, which, combined with energy-sensitive…

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) provides high-resolution visualization of atomic structures as well as various functional imaging modes utilizing phase contrast. In this study we introduce a semicircular aperture in STEM…

It has been argued that in atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of sparse weakly scattering structures, such as small biological molecules, multiple electron scattering usually has only a small effect, while the…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 T. E. Gureyev , H. M. Quiney , A. Kozlov , D. M. Paganin , G. Schmalz , L. J. Allen

We show that de-focused single particle images recorded using a cryo-electron microscope (cryoEM) system may be processed like a Fresnel zone in-line hologram to obtain physically meaningful quantitative phase maps associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Apoorv Pant , Manidipa Banerjee , Kedar Khare