DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18097612
title: NanoMAX example dataset - ptychography on siemens stars - EH2

description: Example (single-beam single-slice) hard X-ray ptychographic dataset recorded at the Diffraction Endstation (EH2) [1] of the NanoMAX beamline [2] at the MAX IV Laboratory [3]. 

The datasets were recorded on two different siemens star samples. They are kept in the folder and file structure typical to the lab and beamline. The upload contains the raw data, the script used to reconstruct the raw, the final reconstruction results and a jupyter notebook loading the reconstructions to create a figure of the reconstructed objects. 

Data was recorded at a photon energy of 16 keV. A pair of KB-mirrors [4] was used to focus the probing X-ray beam. The samples were scanned in a Fermat-spiral scanning pattern [6] over a scan region of 6µm x 6µm with an average step size of 0.3µm. At each scan position a diffraction pattern was recorded with an Eiger2 X 1M detector (DECTRIS, Switzland) [7] and an exposure time of 1 second. The detector was positioned 3.635m downstream of the sample.

Reconstructions were performed using the ptypy-framework [8] using 1000 iterations of the difference-map (DM) algorithm [9], followed by 4000 iterations of the maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm [10] implemented for GPUs using cupy [11].  

We acknowledge the MAX IV Laboratory for beamtime on the NanoMAX beamline under proposal 20250953. Research conducted at MAX IV, a Swedish national user facility, is supported by Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council, VR) under contract 2018-07152, Vinnova (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) under contract 2018-04969 and Formas under contract 2019-02496.



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