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Experimental X-Ray Ghost Imaging

Daniele Pelliccia, Alexander Rack, Mario Scheel, Valentina Cantelli, and David M. Paganin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 113902 – Published 7 September 2016; Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 219902 (2016)
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We report an experimental proof of principle for ghost imaging in the hard-x-ray energy range. We use a synchrotron x-ray beam that is split using a thin crystal in Laue diffraction geometry. With an ultrafast imaging camera, we are able to image x rays generated by isolated electron bunches. At this time scale, the shot noise of the synchrotron emission process is measurable as speckles, leading to speckle correlation between the two beams. The integrated transmitted intensity from a sample located in the first beam is correlated with the spatially resolved intensity measured in the second, empty, beam to retrieve the shadow of the sample. The demonstration of ghost imaging with hard x rays may open the way to protocols to reduce radiation damage in medical imaging and in nondestructive structural characterization using free electron lasers.

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  • Received 16 May 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.113902

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Atomic, Molecular & Optical

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Erratum: Experimental X-Ray Ghost Imaging [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 113902 (2016)]

Daniele Pelliccia, Alexander Rack, Mario Scheel, Valentina Cantelli, and David M. Paganin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 219902 (2016)

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Ghost Imaging with X Rays

Published 7 September 2016

The technique of ghost imaging, which builds up images of objects by combining information from light collected at two detectors, has been demonstrated in the x-ray regime.

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Authors & Affiliations

Daniele Pelliccia1,2,3,*, Alexander Rack4, Mario Scheel5, Valentina Cantelli6,4, and David M. Paganin3

  • 1School of Science, RMIT University, Victoria 3001, Australia
  • 2Australian Synchrotron, Victoria 3168, Australia
  • 3School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
  • 4European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 38043 Grenoble, France
  • 5Synchrotron Soleil, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 6Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany

  • *daniele.pelliccia@rmit.edu.au

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Fourier-Transform Ghost Imaging with Hard X Rays

Hong Yu, Ronghua Lu, Shensheng Han, Honglan Xie, Guohao Du, Tiqiao Xiao, and Daming Zhu
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Vol. 117, Iss. 11 — 9 September 2016

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