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Cutting edge deep learning techniques allow for image segmentation with great speed and accuracy. However, application to problems in materials science is often difficult since these complex models may have difficultly learning physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 James P. Horwath , Dmitri N. Zakharov , Remi Megret , Eric A. Stach

The quantum analogue of ptychography, a powerful coherent diffractive imaging technique, is a simple method for reconstructing $d$-dimensional pure states. It relies on measuring partially overlapping parts of the input state in a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 M. F. Fernandes , M. A. Solís-Prosser , L. Neves

Proton radiography is a technique extensively used to resolve magnetic field structures in high energy density plasmas, revealing a whole variety of interesting phenomena such as magnetic reconnection and collisionless shocks found in…

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

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 present \code{phaser}, an open-source Python package that provides a unified interface to both conventional and gradient descent-based ptychographic algorithms. Features such as mixed-state probe, probe position correction, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Colin Gilgenbach , Menglin Zhu , James M. LeBeau

Aberration-corrected optics have made electron microscopy at atomic-resolution a widespread and often essential tool for nanocharacterization. Image resolution is dominated by beam energy and the numerical aperture of the lens ({\alpha}),…

*To be published in Springer Handbook of Surface Science (Springer Verlag) [Preprint]* The capability to display images containing chemical, magnetic and structural information and to perform spectroscopy and diffraction from a {\mu}m-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alessandro Sala

Linear-dichroism is an important tool to characterize the transmission matrix and determine the crystal or orbital orientation in a material. In order to gain high resolution mapping of the transmission properties of such materials, we…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-12 Huibin Chang , Matthew A Marcus , Stefano Marchesini

Nowadays, modern electron microscopes deliver images at atomic scale. The precise atomic structure encodes information about material properties. Thus, an important ingredient in the image analysis is to locate the centers of the atoms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Benjamin Berkels , Benedikt Wirth

This paper is concerned with investigating super-resolution algorithms and solutions for handling electron microscopic images. We note two main aspects differentiating the problem discussed here from those considered in the literature. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Yanjun Qian , Jiaxi Xu , Lawrence F. Drummy , Yu Ding

The living body is composed of innumerable fine and complex structures and although these structures have been studied in the past, a vast amount of information pertaining to them still remains unknown. When attempting to observe these…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Raku Son , Kenji Yamazawa , Akiko Oguchi , Mitsuo Suga , Masaru Tamura , Yasuhiro Murakawa , Satoshi Kume

In this work, we demonstrate that the ptychographic phase problem can be solved in a live fashion during scanning, while data is still being collected. We propose a generally applicable modification of the widespread projection-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

Ptychographic reconstructions in reflection geometries are commonly interpreted with the same two-dimensional thin-sample model used in transmission, yet the validity of this approximation has not been established. We develop a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sander Senhorst , Stefan Witte , Wim Coene

X-ray ptychography is one of the versatile techniques for nanometer resolution imaging. The magnitude of the diffraction patterns is recorded on a detector and the phase of the diffraction patterns is estimated using phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Prasan Shedligeri , Florian Schiffers , Semih Barutcu , Pablo Ruiz , Aggelos K Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a computational imaging method that is able to super-resolve features beyond the diffraction-limit set by the objective lens of a traditional microscope. This is accomplished by using synthetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Michael Kellman , Emrah Bostan , Michael Chen , Laura Waller

The extended Ptychographical Iterative Engine (ePIE) is a widely used phase retrieval algorithm for Electron Ptychography from 4-dimensional (4-D) Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4-D STEM) measurements acquired with a focused or…

The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is probably one the most fascinating examination approach that has been used since more than two decades to detailed inspection of micro scale objects. Most of the scanning electron microscopes could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Wichai Shanklin

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…

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