The basic principle of the technique was
proposed almost 50 years ago by the physicist
Walter Hoppe, who reasoned that there should
be enough information in the diffraction data
to work backwards to produce an image of the
diffracting object.
I've also found focusing on the resource/noun
aspect ( ... ) to be a bit of a "nerd trap";
/blue/104
/read/9008
/fetch/18
/car/104
/book/9008
/page/18
/48d6215903dff56238e52e8891380c8f/104
/ecae13117d6f0584c25a9da6c8f8415e/9008
/5374034a40c8d6800cb4f449c2ea00a0/18
Please stop laughing so hard.
The joke I made was not that funny.
1. Thumbs Up (like, but often mere acknowledgement)
2. Heart (love, but often off-topic)
3. Wow (horrified, shocked or amazed, but which?)
4. Cry (sad, but why?)
5. Mad (angry, but at who?)
It used to be expensive to compile massive data sets and reduce them to reliable statistical evidence, so it was easy to push concepts that had little supporting evidence. For example: "the particle passes through both slits", "the cat is alive and dead", "there are no hidden variables", "the source of an emission never ascribes state to its particles, and that state does not exist until inspected"
Now, such wild claims are in disagreement with rivers of data that are much more easily produced and reviewed computationally. Observations that were not previously possible now shed light on facts that were previously obscured. Without backing data ideas prone to confusion could take root. Particularly so, with voices of academic authority shouting down concepts that threaten the ivory tower.
But now, technology to conduct measurements is cheaper, and data shouts louder. So, something presented as fact in A Brief History of Time (the particle passes through both slits) can no longer be supported by fame alone, simply because the author is revered. It's easier produce and publish data (make high-fidelity video recordings of the behavior of silicone oil beads demonstrating pilot wave phenomena, and post on youtube).
On this example, pulling together raw data from sensor streams, and dumping into a high performance computing pipeline, reveals that diffraction itself is a state producing phenomenon, and that reliable variables are produced by the diffractor, but would be later hidden by subsequent polarizers that drive downstream state. If the hidden variables weren't reliable, there would be no possibility of composing an image from the statistical analysis of the diffraction. The diffraction would produce no reliable signal to reconstruct, because it would not exist, since local hidden variables are forbidden, behind no-go boundaries.