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Figure 3
The relationship between imaging and diffraction. A simplified schematic view of imaging and diffraction shows that the waves scattered by the specimen form a Fourier transform, observed as a diffraction pattern. The objective lens in a microscope recombines the scattered waves in an inverse transformation, forming the magnified image. In the diffraction experiment, only the diffracted intensities are recorded and the lost phase information must be retrieved by other methods.

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