Quantitative phase-amplitude microscopy. III. The effects of noise

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-61

  Paganin, D ^a,b   Barty, A ^a,c   Mcmahon, P J ^a,d   Nugent, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inline holography; Microscopy; Phase contrast; Phase retrieval

Indexed keywords

EFFECT OF NOISE; IN-LINE HOLOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; NOISY DATA; PHASE RETRIEVAL; PHASE-CONTRAST;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; NOISE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE PHASE AMPLITUDE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 1842558857     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2720.2004.01295.x     Document Type: Article

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