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The CCP-EM Spring Symposium is an annual conference which aims to review and highlight state-of-the-art developments in macromolecular electron cryo-microscopy in an accessible and convivial manner. The conference is held in conjunction with the Diamond Light Source Biological Cryo-Imaging User Meeting for eBIC and B24.

A new project from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals stunning connections between the vast universe and the microscopic world that we cannot see with the naked eye.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Hong Kong/S. Zhang et al.; Radio: ATNF/CSIRO/ATCA; H-alpha: UK STFC/Royal Observatory Edinburgh; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory...

The superconducting wiggler beamline IMAGE at the KIT Light Source, dedicated to full-field hard X-ray imaging applications in materials and life sciences, with a focus on high-throughput computed tomography, laminography experiments and systematic in situ and operando studies, is described.

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Laboratory powder diffraction and microtomography techniques are sequentially used in the same volume of the same sample to study the process of cement hydration with time.

Experimental and simulated dark-field X-ray microscopy images of isolated dislocations in bulk single-crystal aluminium were combined to identify the Burgers vector, slip plane and line direction of the dislocations. Burgers vector identification missed only the sign, and the line direction was determined with an error of less than 10°, sufficient for most applications.

Corrigendum to the article by Hu et al. [(2026). J. Synchrotron Rad. 33, 454–466].

The development of multimodal X-ray computed tomography capabilities, including imaging, fluorescence, diffraction, and scattering, at the 28-ID-2 beamline of the National Synchrotron Light Source II is described.

HiHolo, a high-performance CUDA-MPI software framework for X-ray holographic reconstruction, achieves performance improvement over existing solutions while introducing three enhanced iterative algorithms that effectively reduce artifacts and improve spatial resolution in propagation-based phase contrast imaging.

The first implementation of X-ray multi-projection imaging (XMPI) at the ForMAX beamline (MAX IV) enables the acquisition of multiple projections simultaneously without requiring sample rotation. This approach facilitates volumetric studies of fast dynamics at frame rates of 12.5 kHz with micrometre resolution, with the potential of even higher speeds, surpassing the limitations of state-of-the-art methods like time-resolved tomography.

Geometrical magnification and X-ray energy are optimized with respect to spatial resolution, contrast, noise, radiation dose and other image quality characteristics. The optimization is performed using a simple theoretical model of a homogeneous edge feature embedded in a bulk uniform sample, and the resulting generic analytical expressions for image quality characteristics are evaluated for several sets of parameters relevant to synchrotron-based in-line X-ray imaging setups.

We present a reinforcement learning based approach to X-ray imaging which allows for up to an order of magnitude lower exposure time to reach the same image quality as with a standard raster scan. This is achieved by splitting the imaging task into several steps and letting initial measurements inform the exposure distribution at later stages of the sequence.

We present HoToPy, a toolbox for X-ray holo-tomography in Python. It offers state-of-the-art phase retrieval methods for synchrotron and laboratory sources as well as tomographic reconstruction and alignment methods.

A biomedical X-ray imaging quality characteristic, suitable for quantitative assessment of X-ray images of biological samples, is introduced and then applied to analysis of propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography images of mastectomy samples.

Application of 3D phase retrieval in a multi-step, masking framework allows for strong phase retrieval to be applied near highly attenuating materials without compromising spatial resolution. Demonstrations in brain computed tomography imaging show up to a 6.8-fold improvement in signal-to-noise ratio over standard phase retrieval processes, further broadening its dose-reduction potential in potential clinical applications.