Optimal signal-to-noise ratios for soft x-ray lensless imaging

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 650-652

  Rick, R ^a,b   Scherz, A ^b   Schlotter, W F ^c   Zhu, D ^a,b   Luning J ^d   Stohr J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X RAY LASERS; X RAY OPTICS;

HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; LENS-LESS IMAGING; OPTIMAL SPATIAL FILTER; PARTIALLY COHERENT SOURCES; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SYNCHROTRON SOURCE; X-RAY LASER SOURCES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 61549130522     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000650     Document Type: Article

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