Performance evaluation of two-dimensional phase unwrapping algorithms

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 4333-4344

  Strand, Jarle ^a   Taxt, Torfinn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION; BLOCK LEAST SQUARES METHOD; FLYNN'S METHOD; LIANG'S METHOD; MASK CUT METHOD; MULTIGRID METHOD; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; QUALITY GUIDED PATH FOLLOWING METHOD;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0032607086     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004333     Document Type: Article

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