High-Speed X-ray Imaging on the Fly

In 1878, Scientific American published Muybridge's famous photographic time series of horses in trot and in gallop, providing insights into the biomechanics of animal motion too fast to be resolved by the human eye [1 Muybridge, E. 1878. Scientific American, 39: 241 [Google Scholar]]. A few decades later, Lucien Bull presented even faster image sequences of insect flight [2 Bull, L. 1928. La Cinématographie Paris: A. Colin.. [Google Scholar]]. Ever since, fast detection, measurement, and acquisition schemes have been a pillar of research fields ranging from materials science and chemistry to structural biology and medicine.