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Holographic coherent X-ray imaging enables nanoscale imaging of biological cells and tissues, rendering both phase and absorption contrast, i.e. real and imaginary parts of the refractive index. Unlike the standard model, which assumes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Thorsten Hohage , Milad Karimi , Björn Müller

In this work, we present and investigate the novel blind inverse problem of position-blind ptychography, i.e., ptychographic phase retrieval without any knowledge of scan positions, which then must be recovered jointly with the image. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Simon Welker , Lorenz Kuger , Tim Roith , Berthy Feng , Martin Burger , Timo Gerkmann , Henry Chapman

We present a new technique for removing twin image in in-line digital Fourier holography using a combination of Fourier transformations. Instead of recording only a Fourier transform hologram of the object, we propose to record a combined…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-26 Debesh Choudhury , Gautam Lohar

This paper proposes the combination of SAR and microwave reflection tomography for biomedical imaging applications. The proposed method can achieve accuracies of less than 5mm and does not suffer from instability during reconstruction.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Kevin K. M. Chan , Daniel Oloumi , Pierre Boulanger , Karumudi Rambabu

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a computational technique that achieves a large space-bandwidth product imaging. It addresses the challenge of balancing a large field of view and high resolution by fusing information from multiple…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-21 Ruiqing Sun , Delong Yang , Yao Hu , Qun Hao , Xin Li , Shaohui Zhang

Image inpainting plays a vital role in restoring missing image regions and supporting high-level vision tasks, but traditional methods struggle with complex textures and large occlusions. Although Transformer-based approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sijin He , Guangfeng Lin , Tao Li , Yajun Chen

This work is concerned with applying iterative image reconstruction, based on constrained total-variation minimization, to low-intensity X-ray CT systems that have a high sampling rate. Such systems pose a challenge for iterative image…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Emil Y. Sidky , Rick Chartrand , Yuval Duchin , Christer Ullberg , Xiaochuan Pan

A simple coherent-imaging method due to Paganin et al. is widely employed for phase-amplitude reconstruction of samples using a single paraxial x-ray propagation-based phase-contrast image. The method assumes that the sample-to-detector…

To obtain the initial pressure from the collected data on a planar sensor arrangement in photoacoustic tomography, there exists an exact analytic frequency domain reconstruction formula. An efficient realization of this formula needs to…

Machine learning is attracting surging interest across nearly all scientific areas by enabling the analysis of large datasets and the extraction of scientific information from incomplete data. Data-driven science is rapidly growing,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Sung Yun Lee , Do Hyung Cho , Chulho Jung , Daeho Sung , Daewoong Nam , Sangsoo Kim , Changyong Song

Spectral and grating-based differential phase-contrast X-ray imaging are two emerging technologies that offer additional information compared with conventional attenuation-based X-ray imaging. In the case of spectral imaging,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Korbinian Mechlem , Thorsten Sellerer , Manuel Viermetz , Julia Herzen , Franz Pfeiffer

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography is an emerging imaging technique aimed at estimating the distribution of optical parameters inside tissues from photoacoustic images, which are formed by combining optical information and ultrasonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Antti Hannukainen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Helle Majander , Tanja Tarvainen

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted more and more attention in routine clinical diagnosis assessment, therapy planning, etc., which can reduce the dose of X-ray radiation to patients. However, the noise caused by low X-ray…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Zhicheng Zhang , Lequan Yu , Xiaokun Liang , Wei Zhao , Lei Xing

We present a general theory of fractal transformations and show how it leads to a new type of method for filtering and transforming digital images. This work substantially generalizes earlier work on fractal tops. The approach involves…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-02-17 Michael F. Barnsley , Brendan Harding , Konstantin Igudesman

Sound speed heterogeneities can create aberrations in B-mode ultrasound images by inducing tissue-dependent delays and diffractive effects that conventional beamforming does not incorporate. By using the Fourier split-step method to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Rehman Ali , Trevor M. Mitcham , Marvin M. Doyley , Nebojsa Duric , Jeremy J. Dahl

Diffraction-before-destruction imaging with single ultrashort X-ray pulses has the potential to visualise non-equilibrium processes, such as chemical reactions, at the nanoscale with sub-femtosecond resolution in the native environment…

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent, the demand for faster and more energy-efficient computing approaches grows. While optical computing offers intrinsic advantages in bandwidth and power consumption, existing…

We previously demonstrated near-field speckle scanning based x-ray imaging to be an easy-to-implement phase sensing method capable of providing both high sensitivity and high resolution. Yet, this performance combination could only be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

Fourier ptychography (FP), as a computational imaging method, is a powerful tool to improve imaging resolution. Camera-scanning Fourier ptychography extends the application of FP from micro to macro creatively. Due to the non-ideal scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Baiqi Cui , Shaohui Zhang , Yechao Wang , Yao Hu , Qun Hao