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Electron ptychography describes a family of algorithms which are used to enable the reconstruction of complex specimen transmission functions of a sample in order to obtain both phase and amplitude information, as applied within the realms…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-17 L. Clark , P. D. Nellist

Ptychography is an imaging technique that captures multiple overlapping snapshots of a sample, illuminated coherently by a moving localized probe. The image recovery from ptychographic data is generally achieved via an iterative algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Weijie Gan , Qiuchen Zhai , Michael Thompson McCann , Cristina Garcia Cardona , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Brendt Wohlberg

In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-29 Jason Holloway , M. Salman Asif , Manoj Kumar Sharma , Nathan Matsuda , Roarke Horstmeyer , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Modern imaging techniques at the molecular scale rely on utilizing novel coherent light sources like X-ray free electron lasers for the ultimate goal of visualizing such objects as individual biomolecules rather than crystals. Here, unlike…

We introduce a probabilistic approach to ptychographic reconstruction in computational imaging. Ptychography is an imaging method where the complex amplitude of an object is estimated from a sequence of diffraction measurements. We…

Applications · Statistics 2025-04-09 Hajime Ueda , Shun Katakami , Masato Okada

This article presents a method to perform diffraction tomography in a standard microscope that includes an LED array for illumination. After acquiring a sequence of intensity-only images of a thick sample, a ptychography-based…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-30 Roarke Horstmeyer , Changhuei Yang

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…

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

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

Ptychography is a computational imaging technique that aims to reconstruct the object of interest from a set of diffraction patterns. Each of these is obtained by a localized illumination of the object, which is shifted after each…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Oleh Melnyk , Patricia Römer

Ptychography has become an indispensable tool for high-resolution, non-destructive imaging using coherent light sources. The processing of ptychographic data critically depends on robust, efficient, and flexible computational reconstruction…

We examine the interplay between spectral bandwidth and illumination curvature in ptychography. By tailoring the divergence of the illumination, broader spectral bandwidths can be tolerated without requiring algorithmic modifications to the…

Ptychography is an imaging technique that enables nanometer-scale reconstruction of complex transmittance images by scanning objects with overlapping illumination patterns. However, the illumination function is typically unknown, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Qiuchen Zhai , Gregery T. Buzzard , Kevin Mertes , Brendt Wohlberg , Charles A. Bouman

Ptychography is a lensless, computational imaging method that utilises diffraction patterns to determine the amplitude and phase of an object. In transmission ptychography, the diffraction patterns are recorded by a detector positioned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Kira A. M. Maathuis , Jacob Seifert , Allard P. Mosk

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

Tilting planar samples for multi-zone-axes observation is a routine procedure in electron microscopy. However, this process invariably introduces optical path differences in the electron beam across different sample positions, significantly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-22 Jizhe Cui , Yi Zheng , Kang Sun , Wenfeng Yang , Haozhi Sha , Rong Yu

Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) enables lensless imaging with experimental simplicity and a flexible field of view, yet its resolution is fundamentally constrained by the Abbe diffraction limit. To overcome this limitation, we introduce…

CDI is a lensless imaging technique that enables atomic-resolution imaging of non-crystalline specimens and their dynamics. However, its broader implementation has been hindered by the instability and ill-posedness of its reconstruction…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-11 Zhe Hu , Zisheng Yao , Yuhe Zhang , Pablo Villanueva-Perez

Ptychography is a popular imaging technique that combines diffractive imaging with scanning microscopy. The technique consists of a coherent beam that is scanned across an object in a series of overlapping positions, leading to reliable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Samy Wu Fung , Zichao Di

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…