This document discusses using small angle and wide angle X-ray scattering at synchrotron sources to perform time-resolved measurements of the microstructure of semicrystalline polymers during deformation. It aims to analyze SAXS patterns to obtain real space structural models, validate the models using 2D fast Fourier transforms, and develop a phase recovery algorithm to generate eigenstructures from single time steps in order to establish a low-dimensional representation of the process-structure linkage and potentially capture orientation information.