{"title":"Quantum Noise Simulations for a Synthetic Aperture X-Ray Telescope","authors":"L. Mertz, G. Nakano, J. Kilner","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.md4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.md4","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum noise is examined for an imaging system where the photons are detected in the Fourier domain as opposed to the more familiar image domain.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122885963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exact Variance-Stabilizing Transformations for Image-Signal-Dependent Exponential and Rayleigh Noise","authors":"P. Prucnal, E. Goldstein","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.tud4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.tud4","url":null,"abstract":"One problem presented by the processing of optical signals is that the noise encountered tends to be signal-dependent. Coherent sources, for example, generate photon noise characterized by variance that is proportional to the signal value. Sources emitting chaotic or superposed coherent and chaotic radiation exhibit photon noise variance that is quadratic in the signal value. For film-grain noise, the variance is proportional to some power of the signal. Other imaging devices such as optical disks exhibit noise having a similar signal-dependence.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123305822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Nonnegativity Constraints on Detectability","authors":"K. Hanson","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.wb3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.wb3","url":null,"abstract":"It is demonstrated that under certain circumstances the use of a nonnegativity constraint in tomographic reconstruction from noisy projections can improve the detectability of objects.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133705671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fundamental Statistical Limitations to X-Ray Quantum Detection","authors":"R. Shaw, M. Rabbani","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.tua2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.tua2","url":null,"abstract":"A model for the detective quantum efficiency (DQE) of a screen-film system has recently been developed1,2 which includes all the principle inefficiencies of both screen and film. Subsequent comparison of this model with detailed practical measurements has confirmed its power of prediction.3","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115079730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photon Counting Imaging on the Space Telescope","authors":"A. Boksenberg","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.mb2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.mb2","url":null,"abstract":"Summary not available","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123178766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photon-limited Scene Matching Using Histogram Analysis","authors":"D. Zweig, C. J. Morgan","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.tud3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.tud3","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to advances in photon detection, there is a developing interest in identifying objects from a limited number of photons. Such applications include astronomy, night vision, long-range target recognition and medical and industrial radiology. In each of these applications it is desirable to extract the maximum amount of information from a limited number of photons. In this paper, we propose a method for object recognition based on the formation of irradiance level histograms for a group of known objects. The technique is used to construct a binary histogram which requires fewer photons than a correlation filter to identify a particular object.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121623988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Restoration Techniques for Images Degraded by Poisson Noise","authors":"Shiaw-Shiang Jiang, A. Sawchuk","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.wb4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.wb4","url":null,"abstract":"Under low light level conditions, photon noise is a fundamental limitation of detected images. Photon noise can be modeled as a Poisson point process given by (1) where f(i, j) is the original image, λ is a proportionality factor determining the SNR, and Poisson(·,·) is a Poisson random number generator. The probabilistic description of a Poisson process is given by (2) The normalized observation is given by (3) Eq. (3) can be rewritten as [1], [2] (4) where (5) is recognized as the noise part of the Poisson process.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125867226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signal-to-Noise in Photon Counting Speckle Interferometry with Real Detectors","authors":"S. Ebstein","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.mc3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.mc3","url":null,"abstract":"In speckle interferometry, one estimates the angular power spectrum of short-exposure images degraded by atmospheric turbulence. The power spectrum is a random process due to the variability of atmospheric conditions and due to the stochastic nature of photodetection.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125374849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low Contrast Detection Limits of X-ray Screen-Film Imaging Systems","authors":"J. Motz, M. Danos","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.tua5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.tua5","url":null,"abstract":"The input signal to an x-ray imaging system is given1 by the quantity, α |X1-X2|, where α is the area of the spatial resolution element and X1 and X2 are the X-ray exposures at points 1 and 2 in the image plane. Accordingly for a signal with a given magnitude, there is a tradeoff in the values of α and |X1-X2| such that a signal with high spatial resolution (small α) and high'contrast (X2≪X1) may be quantitatively equivalent to a signal with low spatial resolution (large α) and low contrast (X2≲X1).","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130425086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image Photon Counting Detectors","authors":"C. Papaliolios","doi":"10.1364/qlip.1986.ma2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/qlip.1986.ma2","url":null,"abstract":"A comparison of four available detectors, the Boksenberg, the MAMA, the PAPA, and the resistive anode, point out the individual strengths and weakness.","PeriodicalId":174098,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Quantum-Limited Imaging and Image Processing","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114694085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}