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Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…

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SPAD cameras offer single photon detection sensitivity, high frame rates and zero readout noise. They are a core technology for widefield FLIM, but have further potential in ultra-fast imaging applications. However, in practice sensitivity…

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Imaging through a strongly diffusive medium remains an outstanding challenge in particular in association with applications in biological and medical imaging. Here we propose a method based on a single-photon time-of-flight camera that…

Biological tissues are composed of discrete compartments of biochemical media that often exhibit subtle differences in refractive index. Light propagating through these compartments partially diffracts in a forward direction with a pi/2…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-12 Gregory N. McKay , Jerome Mertz , Nicholas J. Durr

Diffraction-limited imaging through complex scattering media is a long sought after goal with important applications in biomedical research. In recent years, high resolution wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful approach to generate a…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

We report a new coherent imaging technique, termed ptychographic structured modulation (PSM), for quantitative super-resolution microscopy. In this technique, we place a thin diffuser (i.e., a scattering lens) in between the sample and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Pengming Song , Shaowei Jiang , He Zhang , Zichao Bian , Chengfei Guo , Kazunori Hoshino , Guoan Zheng

An ideal imaging system provides a spatial resolution that is ultimately dictated by the numerical aperture (NA) of the illumination and collection optics. In biological tissue, resolution is further affected by scattering limiting the…

High-speed image acquisition in light microscopy is essential for a wide range of applications, including observing dynamic biological processes and enabling high-throughput sample analysis. However, traditional imaging speeds are often…

Two-Photon Microscopy has become an invaluable tool for biological and medical research, providing high sensitivity, molecular specificity, inherent three-dimensional sub-cellular resolution and deep tissue penetration. In terms of imaging…

Multiple light scattering hampers imaging objects in complex scattering media. Approaches used in real practices mainly aim to filter out multiple scattering obscuring the ballistic waves that travel straight through the scattering medium.…

On-invasive optical imaging techniques are essential diagnostic tools in many fields. Although various recent methods have been proposed to utilize and control light in multiple scattering media, non-invasive optical imaging through and…

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

Scattering imaging is often hindered by extremely low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) due to the prevalence of scattering noise. Light field imaging has been shown to be effective in suppressing noise and collect more ballistic photons as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Hongkun Cao , Xin Jin , Junjie Wei , Yihui Fan , Dongyu Du

Rapid and programmable shaping of light fields is central to modern microscopy, display technologies, optical communications and sensing, quantum engineering, and quantum information processing. Current wavefront shaping technologies face a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xin Wei , Zeyang Li , Abhishek V. Karve , Adam L. Shaw , David I. Schuster , Jonathan Simon

We propose a novel technique of microscopy to overcome the effects of both scattering and limitation of the accessible depth due to the objective working distance. By combining Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) with Acoustic Photon…

In the paper we present a low cost optical device which splits the light in the focal plane into two separate optical paths and collimates it back into a single image plane, and where a selective information processing ca be carried out.…

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Conventional silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are well established as light detectors with single-photon-detection capability and used throughout high energy physics, medical, and commercial applications. The possibility to produce single…

Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) is an optical sectioning imaging approach based on orthogonal light pathways for excitation and detection. The excitation pathway has an inverse relation between the optical sectioning strength…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-29 Steven J. Sheppard , Peter T. Brown , Douglas P. Shepherd

Imaging through scattering is a pervasive and difficult problem in many biological applications. The high background and the exponentially attenuated target signals due to scattering fundamentally limits the imaging depth of fluorescence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Jeffrey Alido , Joseph Greene , Yujia Xue , Guorong Hu , Yunzhe Li , Mitchell Gilmore , Kevin J. Monk , Brett T. DiBenedictis , Ian G. Davison , Lei Tian