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Nature Physics 4, 351 - 353 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys952
Subject Categories: Optical physics | Techniques and instrumentation
X-Ray optics: Clarity through a keyhole
Janos Hajdu1,2 & Filipe R. N. C. Maia2
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Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94305, USA
e-mail: janos@xray.bmc.uu.se -
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3 (Box 596), SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.
e-mail: filipe@xray.bmc.uu.se
Abstract
The requirement for an object to be surrounded by empty space when imaged by coherent X-ray diffraction was once thought to be a fundamental limitation. A variant of coherent diffractive imaging proves this not to be the case, and substantially widens its potential use.
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