We present an alternative numerical reconstruction algorithm for direct
tomographic reconstruction of a sample refractive indices from the measured
intensities of its far-field coherent diffraction patterns. We formulate the
well-known phase-retrieval problem in ptychography in a tomographic framework
which allows for simultaneous reconstruction of the illumination function and
the sample refractive indices in three dimensions. Our iterative reconstruction
algorithm is based on the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. We demonstrate the
performance of our proposed method with simulation studies