Practical x-ray ghost imaging with synchrotron light

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a practical method for transmission x-ray ghost imaging using synchrotron light, showing successful image reconstruction and methods to measure system resolution, paving the way for future applications.

Contribution

It introduces a feasible experimental setup for x-ray ghost imaging with synchrotron light and discusses strategies for image reconstruction and resolution measurement.

Findings

Successful reconstruction of x-ray ghost images of samples

Method for measuring the point spread function of the system

Discussion of potential practical applications and parallel imaging

Abstract

We present a practical experimental realization of transmission x-ray ghost imaging using synchrotron light. Hard x-rays from an undulator were split by a Si 200 crystal in Laue geometry to produce two copies of a speckled incident beam. Both speckle beams were simultaneously measured on a CCD camera. The sample was inserted in one of the two beams, and the corresponding image was integrated over the camera extent to synthesize a bucket signal. We show the successful x-ray ghost image reconstruction of two samples and discuss different reconstruction strategies. We also demonstrate a method for measuring the point spread function of a ghost imaging system, which can be used to quantify the resolution of the ghost imaging reconstructions and quantitatively compare different reconstruction approaches. Our experimental results are discussed in view of future practical applications of x-ray ghost imaging, including a means for parallel ghost imaging.