title: Phase retrieval from single biomolecule diffraction pattern.
abstract: In this paper, we propose the SPR (sparse phase retrieval) method, which is a new phase retrieval method for coherent x-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI). Conventional phase retrieval methods effectively solve the problem for high signal-to-noise ratio measurements, but would not be sufficient for single biomolecular imaging which is expected to be realized with femto-second x-ray free electron laser pulses. The SPR method is based on the Bayesian statistics. It does not need to set the object boundary constraint that is required by the commonly used hybrid input-output (HIO) method, instead a prior distribution is defined with an exponential distribution and used for the estimation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method reconstructs the electron density under a noisy condition even some central pixels are masked.
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan. shiro@ism.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Hidetoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kono
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004583:Electrons; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007834:Lasers; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D009113:Muramidase / Q000737:chemistry*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D009113:Muramidase