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Imaging through dense scattering media - such as biological tissue, fog, and smoke - has applications in the medical and robotics fields. We propose a new framework using automatic differentiation for All Photons Imaging through homogeneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Tomohiro Maeda , Ankit Ranjan , Ramesh Raskar

We study by means of experiments and Monte Carlo simulations, the scattering of light in random media, to determine the distance upto which photons travel along almost undeviated paths within a scattering medium, and are therefore capable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Venkatesh Gopal , Sushil Mujumdar , Hema Ramachandran , A. K. Sood

Light passing through scattering media will be strongly scattered and diffused into complex speckle pattern, which contains almost all the spatial information and spectral information of the objects. Although various methods have been…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-04 Lei Zhu , Jietao Liu , Lei Feng , Chengfei Guo , Tengfei Wu , Xiaopeng Shao

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses low-coherence reflectometry to obtain cross-sectional images of inhomogeneous media, such as biological tissue. OCT is particularly useful in the biomedical ea, since the imaging can be performed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Takahisa Mitsui , Kenichiro Aoki

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive volumetric imaging modality with high spatial and temporal resolution. For imaging larger tissue structures, OCT probes need to be moved to scan the respective area. For handheld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Suresh Guttikonda , Maximilian Neidhardt , Vidas Raudonis , Alexander Schlaefer

We propose an approach for imaging in scattering media when large and diverse data sets are available. It has two steps. Using a dictionary learning algorithm the first step estimates the true Green's function vectors as columns in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

In the reconstruction process of unknown multiple scattering objects in inverse medium scattering problems, the first important step is to effectively locate some approximate domains that contain all inhomogeneous media. Without such an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Keji Liu , Jun Zou

In turbid media, scattering of light scrambles information of the incident beam and represents an obstacle to optical imaging. Noninvasive imaging through opaque layers is challenging for dynamic and wide-field objects due to unreliable…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important interferometric diagnostic technique which provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of biological tissues. However, the imaging quality of high-speed OCT is limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Liheng Bian , Jinli Suo , Feng Chen , Qionghai Dai

Scattering in complex media scrambles light, thus obscuring images and limiting applications from astronomy to microscopy. Existing computational and wavefront-shaping methods treat scattering as a linear optical-wave inversion problem that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Chloé Vernière , Raphaël Guitter , Baptiste Courme , Hugo Defienne

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

Coherent Anti Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) offers many advantages for nonlinear bio-imaging, thanks to its sub-cellular spatial resolution and unique chemical specificity. Its working principle requires two incident pulsed laser beams…

Imaging through scattering media is a fundamental and pervasive challenge in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to astronomy. A promising strategy to overcome this challenge is wavefront modulation, which induces measurement diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mingyang Xie , Haiyun Guo , Brandon Y. Feng , Lingbo Jin , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher A. Metzler

High-resolution optical imaging methods, such as confocal microscopy and full-field optical coherence tomography, capture flat optical sections of the sample. If the sample is curved, the optical field sections through several sample layers…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Viacheslav Mazlin , Kristina Irsch , Michel Paques , Mathias Fink , Albert Claude Boccara

The penetration depth of photoacoustic imaging in biological tissues has been fundamentally limited by the strong optical attenuation when light is delivered externally through the tissue surface. To address this issue, we previously…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Mucong Li , Tri Vu , Georgy Sankii , Brenton Winship , Kohldon Boydston , Russell Terry , Pei Zhong , Junjie Yao

Noninvasive, non-contact and \textit{in vivo} monitoring of blood glucose is a long needed pathology tool for saving patients from recurring pain and hassle that can accompany conventional blood glucose testing methods. Optical coherence…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-08-04 R Poddar , S R Sharma , P Sen , J T Andrews

Measurement of the optical transmission matrix (TM) of an opaque material is an advanced form of space-variant aberration correction. Beyond imaging, TM-based methods are emerging in a range of fields including optical communications,…

The fast-growing field of soft matter research requires increasingly sophisticated tools for experimental studies. One of the oldest and most widely used tools to study soft matter systems is optical microscopy. Recent advances in optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-17 Taewoo Lee , Bohdan Senyuk , Rahul P. Trivedi , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Light propagation in materials with microscopic inhomogeneities is affected by scattering. In scattering materials, such as powders, disordered metamaterials or biological tissue, multiple scattering on sub-wavelength particles makes light…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 I. M. Vellekoop , A. P. Mosk

It is well known that direct observation of interference and diffraction pattern in the intensity distribution requires a spatially coherent source. Optical waves emitted from portions beyond the coherence area possess statistically…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Su-Heng Zhang , Lu Gao , Jun Xiong , Li-Juan Feng , De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang