TY  - JOUR
AU  - Reinhardt, Juliane
AU  - Hoppe, Robert
AU  - Hofmann, Georg
AU  - Damsgaard, Christian D.
AU  - Patommel, Jens
AU  - Baumbach, Christoph
AU  - Baier, Sina
AU  - Rochet, Amelie
AU  - Grunwaldt, Jan-Dierk
AU  - Falkenberg, Gerald
AU  - Schroer, Christian
TI  - Beamstop-Based Low-Background Ptychography to Image Weakly Scattering Objects
JO  - Ultramicroscopy
VL  - 173
SN  - 0304-3991
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - PUBDB-2016-05652
SP  - 52 - 57
PY  - 2017
N1  - (c) Elsevier B.V. Post referee full text in progress (embargo 1 year from 14 November 2016). P05K13OD4 and 05K10OD1
AB  - In recent years, X-ray ptychography has been established as a valuable tool for high-resolution imaging. Nevertheless, the spatial resolution and sensitivity in coherent diffraction imaging are limited by the signal that is detected over noise and over background scattering. Especially, coherent imaging of weakly scattering specimens suffers from incoherent background that is generated by the interaction of the central beam with matter along its propagation path in particular close to and inside of the detector. Common countermeasures entail evacuated flight tubes or detector-side beamstops, which improve the experimental setup in terms of background reduction or better coverage of high dynamic range in the diffraction patterns. Here, we discuss an alternative approach: we combine two ptychographic scans with and without beamstop and reconstruct them simultaneously taking advantage of the complementary information contained in the two scans. We experimentally demonstrate the potential of this scheme for hard X-ray ptychography by imaging a weakly scattering object composed of catalytic nanoparticles and provide the analysis of the signal-to-background ratio in the diffraction patterns.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000394078000010
C6  - pmid:27912167
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.ultramic.2016.11.005
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/315130
ER  -