Practical x-ray ghost imaging with synchrotron light

Abstract: We present a practical experimental realization of transmission x-ray ghost imaging using synchrotron light. Hard x-rays from an undulator were split by a Si 200 crystal in Laue geometry to produce two copies of a speckled incident beam. Both speckle beams were simultaneously measured on a CCD camera. The sample was inserted in one of the two beams, and the corresponding image was integrated over the camera extent to synthesize a bucket signal. We show the successful x-ray ghost image reconstruction of two samples and discuss different reconstruction strategies. We also demonstrate a method for measuring the point spread function of a ghost imaging system, which can be used to quantify the resolution of the ghost imaging reconstructions and quantitatively compare different reconstruction approaches. Our experimental results are discussed in view of future practical applications of x-ray ghost imaging, including a means for parallel ghost imaging.