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Localization microscopy often relies on detailed models of point spread functions. For applications such as deconvolution or PSF engineering, accurate models for light propagation in imaging systems with high numerical aperture are…

Point spread function (PSF) engineering has been pivotal in the remarkable progress made in high-resolution imaging in the last decades. However, the diversity in PSF structures attainable through existing engineering methods is limited.…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

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

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

Precise knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) underpins many data analysis steps in astronomy, from photometry and astrometry to source de-blending and deconvolution. In adaptive optics (AO) observations, however, the PSF is highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Arseniy Kuznetsov , Benoit Neichel , Sylvain Oberti , Thierry Fusco

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for cosmology, while subject to challenges in quantifying subtle systematic biases. The Point Spread Function (PSF) can cause biases in weak lensing shear inference when the PSF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Tianqing Zhang , Rachel Mandelbaum , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

In positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, statistical iterative reconstruction (IR) techniques appear particularly promising since they can provide accurate system model. The system model matrix which describes the relationship between…

In High Contrast Imaging, a large instrumental, technological and algorithmic effort is made to reduce residual speckle noise and improve the detection capabilities. In this work, we explore the potential of using a precise physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Dotan Gazith , Barak Zackay

While numerous optical methods exist to probe the dynamics of biological or complex fluid samples, in recent years digital Fourier microscopy techniques, like differential dynamic microscopy, have emerged as ways to efficiently combine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Devynn M. Wulstein , Ryan McGorty

Point spread function (PSF) reconstruction (PSF-R) is a well established technique to determine reliably and accurately the PSF from Adaptive Optics (AO) control loop data. We have successfully applied this technique to improve the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Olivier Beltramo-Martin , Antonino Marasco , Thierry Fusco , Davide Massari , Julien Milli , Giuliana Fiorentino , B. Neichel

Point Spread Function (PSF) engineering is used in single emitter localization to measure the emitter position in 3D and possibly other parameters such as the emission color or dipole orientation as well. Advanced PSF models such as spline…

Fourier ptychography (FP) is a recently proposed computational imaging technique for high space-bandwidth product imaging. In real setups such as endoscope and transmission electron microscope, the common sample motion largely degrades the…

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a well-established computational imaging technique that uses phase masks and other optical elements to embed extra information (e.g., depth) into the images captured by conventional CMOS image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sachin Shah , Matthew Albert Chan , Haoming Cai , Jingxi Chen , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Chahat Deep Singh , Yiannis Aloimonos , Christopher Metzler

Single-shot volumetric fluorescence (SVF) imaging offers a significant advantage over traditional imaging methods that require scanning across multiple axial planes as it can capture biological processes with high temporal resolution. The…

We propose a new method for Point Spread Function (PSF) correction in weak gravitational lensing shear analysis using an artificial image with the same ellipticity as the lensed image. This avoids the systematic error associated with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase

We present the implementation and use of algorithms for matching point-spread functions (PSFs) within the Pan-STARRS Image Processing Pipeline (IPP). PSF-matching is an essential part of the IPP for the detection of supernovae and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Paul A. Price , Eugene A. Magnier

Intensity, wavevector, phase, and polarization are the most important parameters of any light beam. Understanding the wavevector distribution has emerged as a very important problem in recent days, especially at nanoscale. It provides…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-22 Adarsh B. Vasista , Deepak K. Sharma , G V Pavan Kumar

Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

The point-spread function (PSF) of an adaptive optics (AO) system is often poorly known. This ignorance can lead to significant systematic errors in photometry. Since the degree of AO correction is sensitive to the observing conditions:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Christopher D. Sheehy , Nate McCrady , James R. Graham

Based on diffraction theory and the propagation of the light, Fourier optics is a powerful tool allowing the estimation of a visible-range imaging system to transfer the spatial frequency components of an object. The analyses of the imaging…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Stephane Perrin , Paul Montgomery