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Area of Science:

Coherent diffractive imaging
X-ray microscopy
Materials science imaging

Background:

Ptychography offers high-resolution imaging without high-quality optics.
Conventional X-ray ptychography requires mechanical scanning, leading to inefficiencies.
Fly-scan methods mitigate scanning overhead but are often limited to linear paths.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an improved ptychography method for arbitrary 2D continuous scanning trajectories.
To enhance robustness against noise, especially with larger fly-scan steps.
To reduce raster grid artifacts in ptychographic reconstructions.

Main Methods:

Implementation of a novel ptychography variant allowing non-linear, arbitrary 2D continuous scanning.
Numerical and experimental validation of the proposed method.
Analysis of noise robustness and artifact reduction, particularly for large fly-scan steps.

Main Results:

Successful ptychographic reconstruction from scans along arbitrary 2D continuous trajectories.
Demonstrated significant improvement in noise robustness compared to conventional methods.
Validation of reduced raster grid artifacts when using spiral scan trajectories.

Conclusions:

The developed ptychography variant overcomes limitations of linear fly-scans, enabling flexible 2D scanning.
The method is crucial for leveraging high-flux 4th generation synchrotron sources.
Arbitrary trajectory ptychography offers enhanced imaging quality and efficiency.