2009/09/09 by Pierre Thibault, Thibault, Pierre
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Optical measurement and interference techniques #Optics (physics.optics) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #physics.data-an #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0909.1643
Comment on manuscript arXiv:0905.0269v2 and reply to manuscript arXiv:0909.3500v1. 10 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2009/09/09 · arxiv created 2010/01/18 · arxiv updated 2010/02/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We comment on the recent manuscript by Raines et al. [arXiv:0905.0269v2] (now published in Nature, vol. 463, p. 214-217, 2010), which suggests that in certain conditions a single diffraction measurement may be sufficient to reconstruct the full three-dimensional density of a scatterer. We show that past literature contains the tools to assess rigorously the feasibility of this approach. We question the formulation of the reconstruction algorithm used by the authors and we argue that the experimental data used as a demonstration is not suitable for this method, and thus that the reconstruction is not valid. This second version was produced for documentation purposes. In addition to the minimally modified original comment, it includes in appendix a subsequent reply to one of the authors (J. Miao).