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- Date: 2026-06-23 13:15:21
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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-06-23 and was most recently seen on 2026-06-23.
Wikipedia Overview
Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) is a computational microscopy method that reconstructs images from coherent diffraction patterns without the use of lenses. It was first experimentally demonstrated in 1999 by Miao and collaborators using synchrotron X-rays and iterative phase retrieval. CDI has been applied to image structures such as nanotubes, nanocrystals, porous nanocrystalline layers, defects, potentially proteins, and more.
In CDI, a highly coherent beam of X-rays, electrons or other wavelike particle or photon is incident on an object. The beam scattered by the object produces a diffraction pattern downstream which is then collected by a detector. This recorded pattern is then used to reconstruct an image via an iterative feedback algorithm. Effectively, the objective lens in a typical microscope is replaced with software to convert from the reciprocal space diffraction pattern into a real space image. The advantage in using no lenses is that the final image is aberration–free and so resolution is only diffraction and dose limited. Applying a simple inverse Fourier transform to information with only intensities is insufficient for creating an image from the diffraction pattern due to the missing phase information. This is called the phase problem.
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Pushing the resolution limit of coherent diffractive imaging - Nature
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Laser-Induced Alignment of Nanoparticles and Macromolecules for Coherent-Diffractive-Imaging Applications - ACS Publications
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Bragg coherent diffractive imaging of single-grain defect dynamics - anl.gov
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Quantitative hyperspectral coherent diffractive imaging spectroscopy of a solid-state phase transition in vanadium dioxide - Science | AAAS
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In situ coherent diffractive imaging - Nature
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Phase Retrieval Algorithm for Reconstructing the Structure of Magnetic Domains Using Dichroic Coherent Diffractive Imaging: Numerical Examples - Springer Nature Link
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John Miao recognized by Materials Research Society - Newsroom | UCLA
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Computational microscopy with coherent diffractive imaging and ptychography - Nature
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Broadband coherent diffractive imaging - Nature
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Coherent diffractive imaging of microtubules using an X-ray laser - Nature
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Single-shot 3D coherent diffractive imaging of core-shell nanoparticles with elemental specificity - Nature
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Wavelength-scale ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging using a high-order harmonic source - Nature
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Coherent diffractive imaging of single helium nanodroplets with a high harmonic generation source - Nature
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Sparsity-based single-shot subwavelength coherent diffractive imaging - Nature
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Identifying Defects with Guided Algorithms in Bragg Coherent Diffractive Imaging | Scientific Reports - Nature
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Facing the phase problem in Coherent Diffractive Imaging via Memetic Algorithms - Nature
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Keyhole coherent diffractive imaging - Nature
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Whole-cell phase contrast imaging at the nanoscale using Fresnel Coherent Diffractive Imaging Tomography - Nature
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