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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…

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AI algorithms have become valuable in aiding professionals in healthcare. The increasing confidence obtained by these models is helpful in critical decision demands. In clinical dermatology, classification models can detect malignant…

In recent decades, developments in detectors for X-ray imaging have improved dose efficiency. This has been accomplished with for example, structured scintillators such as columnar CsI, or with direct detectors where the X rays are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Magnus Aslund , Erik Fredenberg , M. Telman , Mats Danielsson

Hard X-ray photons with energies in the range of hundreds of keV typically undergo Compton scattering when they are incident on a detector. In this process, an incident photon deposits a fraction of its energy at the point of incidence and…

Imaging through scattering media is encountered in many disciplines or sciences, ranging from biology, mesescopic physics and astronomy. But it is still a big challenge because light suffers from multiple scattering is such media and can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Meng Lyu , Hao Wang , Guowei Li , Guohai Situ

Multi-photon interference is at the heart of photonic quantum technologies. Arrays of integrated cavities can support bright sources of single-photons with high purity and small footprint, but the inevitable spectral distinguishability…

Deep learning has been successfully applied to medical image segmentation, enabling accurate identification of regions of interest such as organs and lesions. This approach works effectively across diverse datasets, including those with…

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A key issue in critical contexts such as medical diagnosis is the interpretability of the deep learning models adopted in decision-making systems. Research in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is trying to solve this issue. However,…

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The sparse layouts of radio interferometers result in an incomplete sampling of the sky in Fourier space which leads to artifacts in the reconstructed images. Cleaning these systematic effects is essential for the scientific use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Kevin Schmidt , Felix Geyer , Stefan Fröse , Paul-Simon Blomenkamp , Marcus Brüggen , Francesco de Gasperin , Dominik Elsässer , Wolfgang Rhode

Scattered radiation is a major concern impacting X-ray image-guided procedures in two ways. First, back-scatter significantly contributes to patient (skin) dose during complicated interventions. Second, forward-scattered radiation reduces…

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Multi-source stationary computed tomography (MSS-CT) offers significant advantages in medical and industrial applications due to its gantry-less scan architecture and/or capability of simultaneous multi-source emission. However, the lack of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Yingxian Xia , Zhiqiang Chen , Li Zhang , Yuxiang Xing , Hewei Gao

This study aims to assess the composition of scattered particles generated in proton therapy for tumours situated proximal to titanium dental implants. The investigation involves decomposing the mixed field and recording Linear Energy…

Understanding how deep learning models represent data is currently difficult due to the limited number of methodologies available. This paper demonstrates a versatile and novel visualisation tool for determining the axis alignment of…

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Compared to single-source imaging systems, dual-source imaging systems equipped with two cross-distributed scanning beams significantly enhance temporal resolution and capture more comprehensive object scanning information. Nevertheless,…

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Light scattering in dense media is a fundamental problem of many-body physics, which is also relevant for the development of optical devices. In this work we investigate experimentally light propagation in a dense sample of randomly…

We present a Machine Learning based approach to the cross section and asymmetries for deeply virtual Compton scattering from an unpolarized proton target using both an unpolarized and polarized electron beam. Machine learning methods are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Jake Grigsby , Brandon Kriesten , Joshua Hoskins , Simonetta Liuti , Peter Alonzi , Matthias Burkardt

Quantum channels in free-space, an essential prerequisite for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in open space, have so far been based on direct line-of-sight because the predominant approaches for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Shihan Sajeed , Thomas Jennewein

Aberrations limit scanning fluorescence microscopy when imaging in scattering materials such as biological tissue. Model-based approaches for adaptive optics take advantage of a computational model of the optical setup. Such models can be…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

The pencil-beam model is valid only when elementary Gaussian beams are small enough with respect to lateral heterogeneity of a medium, which is not always the case in heavy charged particle radiotherapy. This work addresses a solution for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Nobuyuki Kanematsu , Masataka Komori , Shunsuke Yonai , Azusa Ishizaki