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Transcranial ultrasound (TUS) has emerged as a promising tool in clinical and research settings due to its potential to modulate neuronal activity, open the blood-brain barrier, facilitate targeted drug delivery via nanoparticles, and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Kasra Naftchi-Ardebili , Karanpartap Singh , Gerald R. Popelka , Kim Butts Pauly

In a previous work we have demonstrated a novel numerical model for the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system that can efficiently model both experimental measurements and lens design simulations of the PSF. The novelty lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Matthias Lehmann , Christian Wittpahl , Hatem Ben Zakour , Alexander Braun

Modeling the Point Spread Function (PSF) of wide-field surveys is vital for many astrophysical applications and cosmological probes including weak gravitational lensing. The PSF smears the image of any recorded object and therefore needs to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Aurelien Lucchi

Phase aberration is one of the main contributors to image degradation in ultrasound imaging. Normalized-Cross-Correlation (NCC) is one of the most extensively studied techniques to estimate the arrival delay error and the aberration…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Dena Monjazebi , Yuan Xu

We present a new algorithm for estimating the Point Spread Function (PSF) in wide-field astronomical images with extreme source crowding. Robust and accurate PSF estimation in crowded astronomical images dramatically improves the fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Brendt Wohlberg , Przemek Wozniak

The point-spread function (PSF) is a fundamental property of any astronomical instrument. In interferometers, differing array configurations combined with their $uv$ coverage, and various weighting schemes can produce an irregular but…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Jack F. Radcliffe , R. J. Beswick , A. P. Thomson , A. Njeri , T. W. B. Muxlow

The point spread function (PSF) is fundamental to any type of microscopy, most importantly so for single-molecule localization techniques, where the exact PSF shape is crucial for precise molecule localization at the nanoscale. However,…

In ultrasound tomography, the speed of sound inside an object is estimated based on acoustic measurements carried out by sensors surrounding the object. An accurate forward model is a prominent factor for high-quality image reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Janne Koponen , Timo Lähivaara , Jari Kaipio , Marko Vauhkonen

Integrated localization and communication systems aim to reuse communication waveforms for simultaneous data transmission and localization, but delay resolution is fundamentally limited by the available bandwidth. In practice, large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Jialun Kou , Achiel Colpaert , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Sofie Pollin

The knowledge of the exact structure of the optical system PSF enables a high-quality image reconstruction in fluorescence microscopy. Accurate PSF models account for the vector nature of light and the phase and amplitude modifications.…

Quasi-static ultrasound elastography (USE) is an imaging modality that consists of determining a measure of deformation (i.e.strain) of soft tissue in response to an applied mechanical force. The strain is generally determined by estimating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Rémi Delaunay , Yipeng Hu , Tom Vercauteren

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a powerful computational imaging techniques wherein a custom phase mask is integrated into an optical system to encode additional information into captured images. Used in combination with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sachin Shah , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher A. Metzler

Focused ultrasound (FUS) therapy is a promising tool for optimally targeted treatment of spinal cord injuries (SCI), offering submillimeter precision to enhance blood flow at injury sites while minimizing impact on surrounding tissues.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Avisha Kumar , Xuzhe Zhi , Zan Ahmad , Minglang Yin , Amir Manbachi

Deblurring is a fundamental inverse problem in bioimaging. It requires modelling the point spread function (PSF), which captures the optical distortions entailed by the image formation process. The PSF limits the spatial resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-04 Denis K. Samuylov , Prateek Purwar , Gábor Székely , Grégory Paul

Optical astronomical images are strongly affected by the point spread function (PSF) of the optical system and the atmosphere (seeing) which blurs the observed image. The amount of blurring depends both on the observed band, and on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Yuewei Lin , Nesar Ramachandra , Anže Slosar , Shinjae Yoo

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

We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Dayana Andrea Henao Arbeláez , Pierre-François Léget , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

High quality imaging usually requires bulky and expensive lenses to compensate geometric and chromatic aberrations. This poses high constraints on the optical hash or low cost applications. Although one can utilize algorithmic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Xiu Li , Jinli Suo , Weihang Zhang , Xin Yuan , Qionghai Dai

Conventional ultrasound (US) imaging employs the delay and sum (DAS) receive beamforming with dynamic receive focus for image reconstruction due to its simplicity and robustness. However, the DAS beamforming follows a geometrical method of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 M. S. Asif , Gayathri Malamal , A. N. Madhavanunni , Vikram Melapudi , V Rahul , Abhijit Patil , Rajesh Langoju , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

Point-spread function of the probe forming optics ($PSF_{optics} $) is reported for the first time in an uncorrected (without multipole correctors) scanning electron microscope (SEM). In an SEM, the electron probe information is lost as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-02 Surya Kamal , Richard K. Hailstone