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Microscopy image enhancement plays a pivotal role in understanding the details of biological cells and materials at microscopic scales. In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the advancement of microscopy image enhancement,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Debasish Dutta , Neeharika Sonowal , Risheraj Barauh , Deepjyoti Chetia , Sanjib Kr Kalita

The resolution of far-field optical microscopes, which rely on propagating optical modes, is widely believed to be limited because of diffraction to a value on the order of a half-wavelength $\lambda /2$ of the light used. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Christopher C. Davis , Jill Elliott , Anatoly V. Zayats

We present experimental demonstration of tilt-mirror assisted transmission structured illumination microscopy (tSIM) that offers a large field of view super resolution imaging. An assembly of custom-designed tilt-mirrors are employed as the…

Imaging depth of optical microscopy has been fundamentally limited to millimeter or sub-millimeter due to light scattering. X-ray microscopy can resolve spatial details of few microns deeply inside a sample but the contrast resolution is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Wenxiang Cong , Fenglin Liu , Chao Wang , Ge Wang

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. The conventional method reconstructs a depth map and relies on physical-based rendering and a secondary network to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

The structured illumination is adopted widely in the super-resolution microscopy imaging. Here, we studied the ghost imaging scheme with sinusoidal structured speckle illumination, whose spatial resolution can surpass the…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-12 Liming Li

Accurate phase measurement is highly desirable in optical manipulation driven by structured light, since the phase profiles have a close connection with optical force distribution, strongly affecting the capability of optical traps. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-25 Xionggui Tang , Yanhua Xu , Yi Shen , Wenjing Rong

We propose a novel framework to automatically learn to aggregate and transform photometric measurements from multiple unstructured views into spatially distinctive and view-invariant low-level features, which are subsequently fed to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xiang Feng , Kaizhang Kang , Fan Pei , Huakeng Ding , Jinjiang You , Ping Tan , Kun Zhou , Hongzhi Wu

For quality control in the factory, 3D-metrology faces increasing demands for high precision and for more space-bandwidth-speed-product SBSP (number of 3D-points/sec). As a potential solution, we will discuss Structured-Illumination…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Zheng Yang , Alexander Kessel , Gerd Häusler

We present detailed design and operation instructions for a single-objective inverted microscope. Our design is suitable for two dark-field modes of operation: 1- total internal reflection scattering, and 2- cross-polarization…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-01 Anna Peters , Zhu Zhang , Sanli Faez

X-ray diffusive dark-field imaging, which allows spatially unresolved microstructure to be mapped across a sample, is an increasingly popular tool in an array of settings. Here, we present a new algorithm for phase and dark-field computed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 T. A. Leatham , D. M. Paganin , K. S. Morgan

Achieving high spatial resolution is the goal of many imaging systems. Designing a high-resolution lens with diffraction-limited performance over a large field of view remains a difficult task in imaging system design. On the other hand,…

This paper addresses the problem of imaging in the presence of diffraction-photons. Diffraction-photons arise from the low contrast ratio of DMDs ($\sim\,1000:1$), and very much degrade the quality of images captured by SPAD-based systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Ibrahim Alsolami , Wolfgang Heidrich

We previously demonstrated near-field speckle scanning based x-ray imaging to be an easy-to-implement phase sensing method capable of providing both high sensitivity and high resolution. Yet, this performance combination could only be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

X-ray imaging is the most widely used medical imaging modality. However, in the common practice, inconsistency in the initial presentation of X-ray images is a common complaint by radiologists. Different patient positions, patient habitus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Hongxu Yang , Najib Akram Aboobacker , Xiaomeng Dong , German Gonzalez , Lehel Ferenczi , Gopal Avinash

Although defocus can be used to generate partial phase contrast in transmission electron microscope images, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can be further improved by the development of phase plates which increase contrast by applying a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jeremy J. Axelrod , Jessie T. Zhang , Petar N. Petrov , Robert M. Glaeser , Holger Mueller

The assessment of sewer pipe systems is a highly important, but at the same time cumbersome and error-prone task. We introduce an innovative system based on single-shot structured light modules that facilitates the detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Johannes Künzel , Darko Vehar , Rico Nestler , Karl-Heinz Franke , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

The structured illumination (SI) architecture can be adopted in a digital holographic (DH) microscope to enhance the spatial resolution. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a compact and simple SI method in a self-referencing…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-18 S. Hossein S. Yaghoubi , Samira Ebrahimi , Masoomeh Dashtdar

In recent years, a novel x-ray imaging modality has emerged that reveals unresolved sample microstructure via a "dark-field image", which provides complementary information to conventional "bright-field" images, such as attenuation and…

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) aims at reconstructing high-resolution LF images from their low-resolution counterparts. Although CNN-based methods have achieved remarkable performance in LF image SR, these methods cannot fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Zhengyu Liang , Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Shilin Zhou