Bright versus dark schlieren imaging: Quantitative analysis of quasi-sinusoidal phase objects

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 725-729

  Núñez, Ismael ^a   Ferrari, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; SCHLIEREN IMAGING; SPATIAL COMPONENTS;

SCHLIEREN SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947166448     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000725     Document Type: Article

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