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Coherent diffractive imaging is unique as the only route for achieving diffraction-limited spatial resolution in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions, limited only by the wavelength of the light. Recently, advances in coherent short…

To overcome the resolution limit of conventional optics, near field imaging techniques using a negative index flat lens (NIFL) have been previously developed that amplify the evanescent components of the incident field. Here, a technique is…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-23 Wyatt Adams , Durdu Ö. Güney

Traditional optical imaging faces an unavoidable trade-off between resolution and depth of field (DOF). To increase resolution, high numerical apertures (NA) are needed, but the associated large angular uncertainty results in a limited…

In this paper we propose a new joint model for the reconstruction of tomography data under limited angle sampling regimes. In many applications of Tomography, e.g. Electron Microscopy and Mammography, physical limitations on acquisition…

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

Diffraction-limited imaging through complex scattering media is a long sought after goal with important applications in biomedical research. In recent years, high resolution wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful approach to generate a…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg

Talbot-Lau X-ray phase-contrast imaging is a novel imaging modality, which provides not only an X-ray absorption image, but also additionally a differential phase image and a dark-field image. The dark-field image is related to small angle…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Shiyang Hu , Lina Felsner , Andreas Maier , Veronika Ludwig , Gisela Anton , Christian Riess

We describe a diffraction microscopy technique based on refractive optics to study structural variations in crystals. The X-ray beam diffracted by a crystal was magnified by beryllium parabolic refractive lenses on a 2D X-ray camera. The…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-16 Thomas Roth , Carsten Detlefs , Irina Snigireva , Anatoly Snigirev

The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Jan Deriu , Rolf Jagerman , Kai-En Tsay

Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

The advantages of convergent beam electron diffraction for symmetry determination at the scale of a few nm are well known. In practice, the approach is often limited due to the restriction on the angular range of the electron beam imposed…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-09 Richard Beanland , Paul J. Thomas , David I. Woodward , Pamela A. Thomas , Rudolf A. Roemer

The nonlinear quantum interaction of a linearly polarized x-ray probe beam with a focused intense standing laser wave is studied theoretically. Because of the tight focusing of the standing laser pulse, diffraction effects arise for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

In the field of computer vision, visible light images often exhibit low contrast in low-light conditions, presenting a significant challenge. While infrared imagery provides a potential solution, its utilization entails high costs and…

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Imaging systems are inherently prone to aberrations. We present an optimization method to design two-dimensional freeform reflectors that minimize aberrations for various parallel ray beams incident on the optical system. We iteratively…

We present Large Inverse Rendering Model (LIRM), a transformer architecture that jointly reconstructs high-quality shape, materials, and radiance fields with view-dependent effects in less than a second. Our model builds upon the recent…

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Usually, off-axis digital holographic microscopy requires a coherent light source in order to record a full-field hologram. Nevertheless, a LASER-based illumination leads to a non-negligible coherent noise, decreasing then the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-02 Stephane Perrin , Jonas Kuhn , Christian Depeursinge

Machine learning methods for computational imaging require uncertainty estimation to be reliable in real settings. While Bayesian models offer a computationally tractable way of recovering uncertainty, they need large data volumes to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Francesco Tonolini , Jack Radford , Alex Turpin , Daniele Faccio , Roderick Murray-Smith

In this paper we consider the problem of acoustic inversion in the context of the optoacoustic tomography image reconstruction problem. By leveraging the ability of the recently proposed diffusion models for image generative tasks among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 M. G. González , M. Vera , A. Dreszman , L. J. Rey Vega

Diffusion models are now the undisputed state-of-the-art for image generation and image restoration. However, they require large amounts of computational power for training and inference. In this paper, we propose lightweight diffusion…

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