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Ghost imaging (GI) is an imaging technique that uses the second-order correlation between two light beams to obtain the image of an object. However, standard GI is affected by optical background noise, which reduces its practical use. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Zhe Yang , Wei-Xing Zhang , Ma-Chi Zhang , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

Ghost imaging is a fascinating process, where light interacting with an object is recorded without resolution, but the shape of the object is nevertheless retrieved, thanks to quantum or classical correlations of this interacting light with…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-11 Fabrice Devaux , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Severine Denis , Eric Lantz

Articular cartilage is a musculoskeletal soft tissue renowned for its unique mechanical properties. Understanding both its hierarchical structure and the interplay between its constituents could shed light on the mechanical competence of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Simone Fantoni , Luca Brombal , Paolo Cardarelli , Fabio Baruffaldi

Chemical element mapping is an imaging tool that provides essential information on composite materials and it is crucial for a broad range of fields ranging from fundamental science to numerous applications. Methods that exploit x-ray…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-16 Y. Klein , O. Sefi , H. Schwartz , S. Shwartz

X-ray phase-contrast imaging can provide greatly improved contrast over conventional absorption-based imaging for weakly absorbing samples, such as biological soft tissues and fibre composites. In this manuscript, we introduce an easy and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Shenghao Wang , Huajie Han , Kun Gao , Zhili Wang , Can Zhang , Meng Yang , Zhao Wu , Augusto Marcelli , Ziyu Wu

Ghost imaging (GI) is an unconventional technique that combines information from two correlated patterned light fields to compute an image of the object of interest. GI can be performed with visible light as well as penetrating radiation…

This work presents a high-resolution X-ray microtomography system that uses commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) CMOS image sensors as direct detectors, relying on the sensor s intrinsic resolution to achieve tomographic reconstructions without…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Damian L. Corzi , Jose Lipovetzky , Fabricio Alcalde Bessia , German Mato , Andres Cicuttin , Maria L. Crespo , Martin Perez , Mariano Gomez Berisso

Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey H Shapiro

Computational ghost imaging (CGI) has recently been intensively studied as an indirect imaging technique. However, the speed of CGI cannot meet the requirements of practical applications. Here, we propose a novel CGI scheme for high-speed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Hao Zhang , Deyang Duan

In ghost imaging scheme, an illuminated light is split into test and reference beams which pass through two different optical systems respectively and an image is constructed by the second-order correlation between the two light beams.…

We demonstrate experimentally ghost optical coherence tomography using a broadband incoherent supercontinuum light source with shot-to-shot random spectral fluctuations. The technique is based on ghost imaging in the spectral domain where…

Ghost imaging and differential ghost imaging are well-known imaging techniques based on the use of both classical and quantum correlated states of light. Since the existence of correlations has been shown to be the main resource to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Silvia Cassina , Gabriele Cenedese , Marco Lamperti , Maria Bondani , Alessia Allevi

The problem of optimization of propagation-based phase-contrast imaging setups is considered in the case of projection X-ray imaging and three-dimensional tomography with phase retrieval. For two-dimensional imaging, a simple model for a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 T. E. Gureyev , D. M. Paganin , H. M. Quiney

We outline some basics of imaging using both fully-coherent and partially-coherent X-ray beams, with an emphasis on phase-contrast imaging. We open with some of the basic notions of X-ray imaging, including the vacuum wave equations and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 David M. Paganin , Daniele Pelliccia

Temporal ghost imaging is based on the temporal correlations of two optical beams and aims at forming a temporal image of a temporal object with a resolution, fundamentally limited by the photodetector resolution time and reaching 55 ps in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Dmitri B. Horoshko

X-ray phase-contrast imaging enhances soft tissue visualization by leveraging the phase shift of X-rays passing through materials. It permits to minimize radiation exposure due to high contrast, as well as high resolution imaging limited by…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Emilie Pietersoone , Jean Michel Létang , Simon Rit , Max Langer

The ill-posed problem of phase retrieval in optics, using one or more intensity measurements, has a multitude of applications using electromagnetic or matter waves. Many phase retrieval algorithms are computed on pixel arrays using discrete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 J. A. Pollock , K. S. Morgan , L. C. P. Croton , M. K. Croughan , G. Ruben , N. Yagi , H. Sekiguchi , M. J. Kitchen

Computational ghost imaging retrieves the spatial information of a scene using a single pixel detector. By projecting a series of known random patterns and measuring the back reflected intensity for each one, it is possible to reconstruct a…

Techniques based on classical and quantum correlations in light beams, such as ghost imaging, allow us to overcome many limitations of conventional imaging and sensing protocols. Despite their advantages, applications of such techniques are…

Nowadays the world has entered into the digital age, in which the data analysis and visualization have become more and more important. In analogy to imaging the real object, we demonstrate that the computational ghost imaging can image the…