Researchers use 'complexity' as a guiding tool to make phase retrieval easier for coherent X-ray imaging

Since their discovery by Roentgen in 1895, X-rays have become an effective tool for doctors to take images of their patients' bones, organs and vessels, and make better diagnoses. Scientists have continued this quest to acquire high-resolution images of interesting objects. Only this time, with much-advanced imaging hardware at hand, they are looking at micro- and nano-sized objects across the structural biology, material science, chemistry, and medical science fields while trying to determine their structures.