Optimizing wide-field coded aperture imaging: Radial mask holes and scanning

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 402-410

  Grindlay, Jonathan E ^a   Hong, JaeSub ^a  

^a The Harvard College Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Coded aperture imaging; Coded masks; Imaging detectors; URAs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MASKS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSPARENCY; X RAYS;

CODED APERTURE IMAGING; CODED MASKS; IMAGING DETECTORS; URA;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842638647     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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