  An automated approach to reconstruct spherical Kikuchi maps from
experimentally collected electron backscatter diffraction patterns and overlay
each pattern onto its corresponding position on a simulated Kikuchi sphere is
presented in this study. This work demonstrates the feasibility of warping any
Kikuchi pattern onto its corresponding location of a simulated Kikuchi sphere
and reconstructing a spherical Kikuchi map of a known phase based on any set of
experimental patterns. The proposed method is the first automated approach to
reconstructing spherical Kikuchi maps from experimental Kikuchi patterns. It
potentially enables more accurate orientation calculation, new pattern center
refinement methods, improved dictionary-based pattern matching, and phase
identification in the future.
