Development of fast, simultaneous and multi-technique scanning hard X-ray microscopy at Synchrotron Soleil

A distributed fast-acquisition system for synchronized multi-technique experiments
is presented, in which the collection of metadata and the asynchronous
merging of large data volumes from multiple detectors are managed as part of
the data collection process. This fast continuous scanning scheme, named
FLYSCAN, enables measurement of microscopy data on a timescale of
milliseconds per pixel. Proof-of-principle multi-technique experiments, namely
scanning X-ray fluorescence spectrometry combined with absorption, differential
phase contrast and dark-field imaging, have been performed on biological
and geological samples.