“…Luo et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014;Eakins & Chapman, 2014;Rack et al, 2014;Kantor et al, 2014;Kareh et al, 2014;Karagadde et al, 2015;Jensen et al, 2015; and references therein) have began to exploit synchrotron radiation to provide some of the first observations of important damage mechanisms at the mesoscale. Radiographic studies report observations of the early stages of buried pore collapse (Eakins & Chapman, 2014), crack pattern formation and instability growth (Luo et al, 2012;Jensen et al, 2015), while diffraction experiments have identified remarkably complex phase behaviour in bismuth (Hu et al, 2013). 1 However, several authors highlight the challenges associated with bringing dynamic experiments to synchrotron environments, noting trade-offs between signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), time resolution, interframe time and image ghosting (Luo et al, 2012;Eakins & Chapman, 2014).…”