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Biomedical applications requiring tissue diagnosis, activation, and treatment could be substantially leveraged by optical methods, owing to their unique feature set. However, their widespread application is severely limited by the strong…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Maxim Cherkashin , Carsten Brenner , Georg Schmitz , Martin Hofmann

X-rays are commonly used in imaging experiments due to their penetration power, which enables non-destructive resolution of internal structures in samples that are opaque to visible light. Time-resolved X-ray tomography is the…

Fabrication of X-ray gratings has surged in the last two decades thanks to their vast employment in X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging, an imaging technique able to boost X-ray sensitivity to detect otherwise invisible details. These high aspect…

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

Demonstrating the utility of quantum algorithms is a long-standing challenge, where quantum machine learning becomes one of the most promising candidate that can be resorted to. In this study, we investigate a quantum neural compressive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Xinliang Zhai , Tailong Xiao , Jingzheng Huang , Jianping Fan , Guihua Zeng

The integration of deep learning in medical imaging has shown great promise for enhancing diagnostic, therapeutic, and research outcomes. However, applying universal models across multiple modalities remains challenging due to the inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yixin Chen , Lin Gao , Yajuan Gao , Rui Wang , Jingge Lian , Xiangxi Meng , Yanhua Duan , Leiying Chai , Hongbin Han , Zhaoping Cheng , Zhaoheng Xie

We initially proposed a deep learning approach for foreign objects inpainting in smartphone-camera captured chest radiographs utilizing the cheXphoto dataset. Foreign objects which can significantly affect the quality of a computer-aided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Hieu X. Le , Phuong D. Nguyen , Thang H. Nguyen , Khanh N. Q. Le , Thanh T. Nguyen

Feature matching is an important technique to identify a single object in different images. It helps machines to construct recognition of a specific object from multiple perspectives. For years, feature matching has been commonly used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Hang Zhu , Zihao Wang

X-ray mirror fabrication for astronomy is challenging; this is due to the Wolter I optical geometry and the tight tolerances on roughness and form error to enable accurate and efficient X-ray reflection. The performance of an X-ray mirror,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Carolyn Atkins

Accurate modelling of object deformations is crucial for a wide range of robotic manipulation tasks, where interacting with soft or deformable objects is essential. Current methods struggle to generalise to unseen forces or adapt to new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sean M. V. Collins , Brendan Tidd , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Peyman Moghadam

We introduce an absorption imaging technique for ultracold gases that suppresses interference fringes and coherence-induced artifacts by reducing the transverse spatial coherence of the imaging light. The method preserves the narrow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-16 Julia Fekete , Poppy Joshi , Peter Krüger , Fedja Oručević

The last few years have seen a variety of new image mask designs for diffraction-limited coronagraphy. Could there still be useful designs as yet undiscovered? To begin to answer this question, I survey and unify the Fraunhofer theory of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc J. Kuchner

A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable to experimental conditions relevant to absorption-based,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Timur E. Gureyev , Hamish G. Brown , Harry M. Quiney , Leslie J. Allen

In the last fifteen years several techniques based on the holographic principle have been developed for the study of the 3D local order in solids. These methods use various particles: electrons, hard x-ray photons, gamma photons, or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Faigel , M Tegze , G. Bortel , Z. Jurek , S. Marchesini , M. Belakhovskyo , A. Simionovici

Modern technology for producing extremely bright and coherent X-ray laser pulses provides the possibility to acquire a large number of diffraction patterns from individual biological nanoparticles, including proteins, viruses, and DNA.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-11 Stefan Engblom , Carl Nettelblad , Jing Liu

We consider the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging of an object using the light reflected off a diffusive wall. The wall scatters incident light such that a lens is no longer useful to form an image. Instead, we exploit the 4D spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , Alexandru Tamasan , George K. Atia

We present a theoretical study of ghost imaging by using blackbody radiation source. A Gaussian thin lens equation for the ghost imaging, which depends on both paths, is derived. The dependences of the visibility and quality of the image on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yangjian Cai , Shiyao Zhu

X-ray parametric down-conversion is a fundamental nonlinear effect that promises a wide range of possible applications. Nevertheless, it has been scarcely investigated and unequivocal evidence of the effect is still missing for certain…

Transformation optics offers an unconventional approach to the control of electromagnetic fields. A transformation optical structure is designed by first applying a form-invariant coordinate transform to Maxwell's equations, in which part…

Radiation damage is one of the most severe resolution limiting factors in x-ray imaging, especially relevant to biological samples. One way of circumventing this problem is to exploit correlation-based methods developed in quantum imaging.…