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We address the problem of motion estimation in images operating in the frequency domain. A method is presented which extends phase correlation to handle multiple motions present in an area. Our scheme is based on a novel Bilateral-Phase…
We present a simple electromechanical finite difference model to study the response of a piezoelectric polyvinylidenflourid (PVDF) transducer to optoacoustic (OA) pressure waves in the acoustic nearfield prior to thermal relaxation of the…
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In recent years high-resolution 3D printing has enabled a diverse range of new, low-cost, methods for ultrasonic wave-front shaping. Acoustic holograms, particularly, allow for the generation of arbitrary, diffraction limited, acoustic…
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Traditionally one defines the speed of a wave as a property of the medium. Recent studies in photonics have challenged this idea, indicating that spatial shaping of the optical wavefront has can alter the arrival time of single photons when…
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High-contrast imaging provided by a coronagraph is critical for the direction imaging of the Earth-like planet orbiting its bright parent star. A major limitation for such direct imaging is the speckle noise that is induced from the…
This paper studies inverse problems in quantitative photoacoustic tomography with additional optical current data supplemented from diffuse optical tomography. We propose a three-stage image reconstruction method for the simultaneous…
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Photoacoustic (PA) imaging systems are spreading in the biomedical community, and the de-velopment of new PA contrast agents is an active area of research. However, PA contrast agents are usually characterized with spectrophotometry or…
High-speed quantitative phase imaging enables non-intrusive visualization of transient compressible gas flows and energetic phenomena. However, phase maps reconstructed via the transport of intensity equation (TIE) suffer from spatially…
The time-domain technique for impedance spectroscopy consists of computing the excitation voltage and current response Fourier images by fast or discrete Fourier transformation and calculating their relation. Here we propose an alternative…
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…
The contrast transfer function of direct ptychography methods such as the single side band (SSB) method are single signed, yet these methods still sometimes exhibit contrast reversals, most often where the projected potentials are strong.…
Transient reflectivity spectroscopy is widely used to study ultrafast carrier- and phonon-dynamics in semiconductors. In their heterostructures, it is often not straightforward to distinguish contributions to the signal from the various…