Inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) has recently been used to image
electron dynamics at the attosecond timescale, but it has been shown
that these images are spatially averaged. The problem is that the
existing technique can only access the "diagonal" elements
of the electron density response. It was shown long ago, however, that
inelastic X-ray scattering in the presence of coherent standing fields
is sensitive to the off-diagonal elements of the response. With this
method, a standing wave field is established in the sample by exciting
a Bragg condition, allowing access to all the off-diagonal elements of
the response. In this poster I will present a simple model
demonstrating that, in principle, this approach can be used to
overcome the averaging problem and achieve "true" imaging. In
particular, I will show that a one-dimensional system is
experimentally impractical to probe, a two-dimensional system is
experimentally tenable but typically difficult to measure in practice,
and a three-dimensional system is experimentally both plausible and
practicable.