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We provide a systematic study of the optical models for thin layers: the 3D model, the 2D model and the linearized 2D model. We show that the 2D model is applicable for layers with small optical thicknesses. Excellent agreement of the 2D…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Yilei Li , Tony F. Heinz

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

This paper presents a new FDTD-based optical simulation model dedicated to describe the optical performances of CMOS image sensors taking into account diffraction effects. Following market trend and industrialization constraints, CMOS image…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-17 Flavien Hirigoyen , Axel Crocherie , Jérôme Vaillant , Yvon Cazaux

Many eye diseases like Diabetic Macular Edema (DME), Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and Glaucoma manifest in the retina, can cause irreversible blindness or severely impair the central version. The Optical Coherence Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li

Microscopy images are crucial for life science research, allowing detailed inspection and characterization of cellular and tissue-level structures and functions. However, microscopy data are unavoidably affected by image degradations, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Nuno Pimpão Martins , Yannis Kalaidzidis , Marino Zerial , Florian Jug

A detailed analysis of ptychography for 3D phase reconstructions of thick specimens is performed. We introduce multi-focus ptychography, which incorporates a 4D-STEM defocus series to enhance the quality of 3D reconstructions along the beam…

Diffuse optical breast imaging utilizes near-infrared (NIR) light propagation through tissues to assess the optical properties of tissue for the identification of abnormal tissue. This optical imaging approach is sensitive, cost-effective,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenxiang Cong , Xavier Intes , Ge Wang

Optical Doppler Tomography (ODT) is an emerging blood flow analysis technique. A 2D ODT image (B-scan) is generated by sequentially acquiring 1D depth-resolved raw A-scans (A-line) along the lateral axis (B-line), followed by Doppler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhenghong Li , Wensheng Cheng , Congwu Du , Yingtian Pan , Zhaozheng Yin , Haibin Ling

With the development of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, methods have been proposed to precisely estimate the thickness, refractive index, and attenuation coefficient of a sample. In this article, we propose a new method to compute these…

Multiple light scattering in tissue limits the penetration of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Here, we present in-vivo OCT imaging of a live mouse using wavefront shaping to enhance the penetration depth. A digital micro-mirror…

Three-dimensional electron tomography is used to understand the structure and properties of samples in chemistry, materials science, geoscience, and biology. With the recent development of high-resolution detectors and algorithms that can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 David Ren , Michael Whittaker , Colin Ophus , Laura Waller

We present a multimodal approach for measuring the three-dimensional (3D) refractive index (RI) and fluorescence distributions of live cells by combining optical diffraction tomography (ODT) and 3D structured illumination microscopy (SIM).…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-04 Seungwoo Shin , Doyeon Kim , Kyoohyun Kim , Yongkeun Park

Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive and non-contacting imaging technique providing visualization of microvasculature of retina and optic nerve head in human eyes in vivo. The adequate image quality of OCTA is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Yufei Wang , Yiqing Shen , Meng Yuan , Jing Xu , Bin Yang , Chi Liu , Wenjia Cai , Weijing Cheng , Wei Wang

We compare the performance of an approach using real frequency dependent polarizability to compute optical absorption spectra to linear-response time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) for small organic dyes, oligomers of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-22 Ang Siong Tuan , Amrita Pal , Sergei Manzhos

In order to determine the 3D structure of a thick sample, researchers have recently combined ptychography (for high resolution) and tomography (for 3D imaging) in a single experiment. 2-step methods are usually adopted for reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Huibin Chang , Pablo Enfedaque , Stefano Marchesini

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent, interferometric, high-resolution imaging method with broad biomedical applications. Nonetheless, OCT images suffer from an artifact, called speckle which degrades the image quality. Digital…

Conventional three-dimensional (3D) imaging methods require multiple measurements of the sample in different orientation or scanning. When the sample is probed with coherent waves, a single two-dimensional (2D) intensity measurement is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Tatiana Latychevskaia

In this work, we propose to leverage a deep-learning (DL) based reconstruction framework for high quality Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (SS-OCT) images, by incorporating wavelength ({\lambda}) space interferometric fringes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Maryam Viqar , Erdem Sahin , Violeta Madjarova , Elena Stoykova , Keehoon Hong

Diffraction microtomography in coherent light is foreseen as a promising technique to image transparent living samples in three dimensions without staining. Contrary to conventional microscopy with incoherent light, which gives…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stanislas Vertu , Jean-Jacques Delaunay , Olivier Haeberle

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