Live Iterative Ptychography

TL;DR

This paper presents a live-updating ptychographic reconstruction method using ePIE, enabling real-time monitoring and adjustments during ongoing data acquisition, which is especially useful for long experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a live iterative reconstruction approach that updates with incoming data, allowing real-time visualization and experiment control in ptychography.

Findings

Interpretable results with minimal data subsets

Simulated live processing with various scan patterns

Real-world live processing at a synchrotron beamline

Abstract

We demonstrate live-updating ptychographic reconstruction with ePIE, an iterative ptychography method, during ongoing data acquisition. The reconstruction starts with a small subset of the total data, and as the acquisition proceeds the data used for reconstruction is extended. This creates a live-updating view of object and illumination that allows monitoring the ongoing experiment and adjusting parameters with quick turn-around. This is particularly advantageous for long-running acquisitions. We show that such a gradual reconstruction yields interpretable results already with a small subset of the data. We show simulated live processing with various scan patterns, parallelized reconstruction, and real-world live processing at the hard X-ray ptychographic nanoanalytical microscope PtyNAMi at the PETRA III beamline.