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Light scattering techniques are widely used in many fields of condensed and sof t matter physics. Usually these methods are based on the study of the scattered light in the far field. Recently, a new family of near field detection schemes…

We develop a speckle-tracking method for x-ray phase-contrast imaging, based on the concept of geometric flow. This flow is a conserved current associated with deformation of illuminating x-ray speckles induced by passage through a sample.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 David M. Paganin , Helene Labriet , Emmanuel Brun , Sebastien Berujon

In this work, we present and investigate the novel blind inverse problem of position-blind ptychography, i.e., ptychographic phase retrieval without any knowledge of scan positions, which then must be recovered jointly with the image. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Simon Welker , Lorenz Kuger , Tim Roith , Berthy Feng , Martin Burger , Timo Gerkmann , Henry Chapman

While there has been significant progress in object detection using conventional image processing and machine learning algorithms, exploring small and dim target detection in the IR domain is a relatively new area of study. The majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nikhil Kumar , Pravendra Singh

Dark-field contrast imaging with grating interferometers has proven to hold huge potential for numerous applications with X-rays and with neutrons conveying biology and medicine as well as engineering and magnetism, respectively. However, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-03 Markus Strobl

Single-shot ptychography is a quantitative phase imaging method wherein overlapping beams of light arranged in a grid pattern simultaneously illuminate a sample, allowing a full ptychographic dataset to be collected in a single shot. It is…

Talbot(-Lau) interferometric X-ray darkfield imaging has, over the past decade, gained substantial interest for its ability to provide insights into a sample's microstructure below the imaging resolution by means of ultra small angle…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Jonas Graetz , Andreas Balles , Randolf Hanke , Simon Zabler

Directional detection of dark matter is the next generation experiment, which is expected to have better back ground rejection efficiency than conventional direct search. Another intriguing possibility of the experiment by means of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-16 Keiko I. Nagao

Complex-field imaging is indispensable for numerous applications at wavelengths from X-ray to THz, with amplitude describing transmittance (or reflectivity) and phase revealing intrinsic structure of the target object. Coherent diffraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Meng Li , Liheng Bian , Guoan Zheng , Andrew Maiden , Yang Liu , Yiming Li , Qionghai Dai , Jun Zhang

Emerging methods of x-ray imaging that capture phase and dark-field effects are equipping medicine with complementary sensitivity to conventional radiography. These methods are being applied over a wide range of scales, from virtual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 T. A. Leatham , D. M. Paganin , K. S. Morgan

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kevin Karsch , David Forsyth

Recently introduced speckle-correlations based techniques enable noninvasive imaging of objects hidden behind scattering layers. In these techniques the hidden object Fourier amplitude is retrieved from the scattered light autocorrelation,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Tengfei Wu , Ori Katz , Xiaopeng Shao , Sylvain Gigan

We show that the symmetries of image formation by scattering enable graph-theoretic manifold-embedding techniques to extract structural and timing information from simulated and experimental snapshots at extremely low signal. The approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Peter Schwander , Chun Hong Yoon , Abbas Ourmazd , Dimitrios Giannakis

We provide a complete pipeline for the detection of patterns of interest in an image. In our approach, the patterns are assumed to be adequately modeled by a known template, and are located at unknown positions and orientations that we aim…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Julien Fageot , Virginie Uhlmann , Zsuzsanna Püspöki , Benjamin Beck , Michael Unser , Adrien Depeursinge

X-ray speckles have been used for a wide variety of experiments, ranging from imaging (and tomography), wavefront sensing, spatial coherence measurements all the way to x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and ptychography. In the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Rafael Celestre , Laurene Quenot , Christopher Ninham , Emmanuel Brun , Luca Fardin

While the implementation of single particle coherent diffraction imaging for non-crystalline particles is complicated by current limitations in photon flux, hit rate, and sample delivery a concept of many-particle coherent diffraction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-22 R. P. Kurta , R. Dronyak , M. Altarelli , E. Weckert , I. A. Vartanyants

Directional light scattering by spherical silicon nanoparticles in the visible spectral range is experimentally demonstrated for the first time. These unique scattering properties arise due to simultaneous excitation and mutual interference…

We present a new approach for retrieving dark-field, phase shift, and attenuation images from speckle-based X-ray imaging data. Speckle-based X-ray imaging (SBXI) exploits sample-induced alterations to a reference near-field speckle pattern…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Jayvan Liu , Samantha J. Alloo , Max Langer , Konstantin M. Pavlov

A new method for dark field imaging is introduced which uses scanned electron diffraction (or 4DSTEM - 4-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy) datasets as its input. Instead of working on simple summation of intensity, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ian MacLaren , Andrew T. Fraser , Matthew R. Lipsett , Colin Ophus

X-ray scattering patterns from emerging single particle experiments have commonly many missing or contaminated pixels. This complicates different analyses including projections on Fourier or other basis functions (for noise suppression,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-11-19 Aliakbar Jafarpour