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We report on a new x-ray imaging method, which combines the high spatial resolution of coherent diffraction imaging with the ability of dark field microscopy to map grains within thick polycrystalline specimens. An x-ray objective serves to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 Anders Filsøe Pedersen , Virginie Chamard , Carsten Detlefs , Tao Zhou , Dina Carbone , Henning Friis Poulsen

Inspired by the capability of structured illumination microscopy in subwavelength imaging, many researchers devoted themselves to investigating this methodology. However, due to the free propagating feature of the traditional structured…

An unbiased method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. The strategy at the core of this method is to establish a linear transformation between the recorded image and an improved image at some desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. P. Pijpers

In this paper, a novel method to enhance Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) THz imaging resolution beyond its diffraction limit is proposed. Our method comprises two stages. Firstly, we reconstruct the signal in depth-direction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Tak Ming Wong , Matthias Kahl , Peter Haring Bolívar , Andreas Kolb

The far-field resolution of optical imaging systems is restricted by the Abbe diffraction limit, a direct result of the wave nature of light. One successful technological approach to circumventing this limit is to reduce the effective size…

Supervised deep learning approaches can artificially increase the resolution of microscopy images by learning a mapping between two image resolutions or modalities. However, such methods often require a large set of hard-to-get…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Marzieh Gheisari , Auguste Genovesio

Terahertz imaging holds great potential for non-destructive material inspection, but practical implementation has been limited by resolution constraints. In this study, we present a single-pixel THz imaging system based on a confocal…

Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

We report resolution enhancement in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images using a generative adversarial network. We demonstrate the veracity of this deep learning-based super-resolution technique by inferring unresolved features in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Kevin de Haan , Zachary S. Ballard , Yair Rivenson , Yichen Wu , Aydogan Ozcan

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is an important tool in biomedical research for its ability to discern features smaller than the diffraction limit. However, due to its difficult implementation and high cost, the universal…

For several centuries, far-field optical microscopy has remained a key instrument in many scientific disciplines including physical, chemical and biomedical research. Nonetheless, far-field imaging has many limitations: the spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-27 Lyubov V. Amitonova , Johannes F. de Boer

For more than a century, the diffraction limit has defined the resolution achievable by passive optical imaging systems. Although some resolution improvement can be gained through classical data processing of the image, it is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Lvovsky , Michael R. Grace , Saikat Guha , Mankei Tsang , Gerardo Adesso , Nicolas Treps

Diffusion-weighted MRI is nowadays performed routinely due to its prognostic ability, yet the quality of the scans are often unsatisfactory which can subsequently hamper the clinical utility. To overcome the limitations, here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyun Kim , Jeong Hee Yoon , Jeong Min Lee , Jong Chul Ye

We introduce a structured illumination technique for dark-field x-ray microscopy optimized for three-dimensional imaging of ordered materials at sub-micrometer length scales. Our method utilizes a coded aperture to spatially modulate the…

Though modern microscopes have an autofocusing system to ensure optimal focus, out-of-focus images can still occur when cells within the medium are not all in the same focal plane, affecting the image quality for medical diagnosis and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Ioana Mazilu , Shunxin Wang , Sven Dummer , Raymond Veldhuis , Christoph Brune , Nicola Strisciuglio

Super-resolution microscopy is crucial for imaging sub-wavelength biological structures. However, most techniques rely on nonlinear saturation or stochastic switching of emitters, limiting imaging speed and increasing phototoxicity. Here,…

In a previous article we suggested a method to overcome the diffraction limit behind a telescope. We refer to theory and recent numerical simulations, and test whether it is indeed possible to use photon amplification to enhance the angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Aglae N. Kellerer , Erez N. Ribak

In coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) the resolution of the reconstructed object is limited by the numerical aperture of the experimental setup. We present here a theoretical and numerical study for achieving super-resolution by…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-09-20 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Yuriy Chushkin , Hans-Werner Fink

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incident light. Along with the recently developed classical…

In this article, we provide an alternative up-sampling and PSF deconvolution method for the iterative multi-exposure coaddition. Different from the previous works, the new method has a ratio-correction term, which allows the iterations to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Lei Wang , Guoliang Li , Xi Kang