All-optical axially multi-regional super resolved imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17912-17921

  Raveh, Ido ^a   Zalevsky, Zeev ^b  

^a Xceed Imaging Ltd   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; MOBILE PHONES; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE;

BUSINESS CARDS; DEPTH OF FOCUS; SUPER RESOLVED IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549050218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017912     Document Type: Article

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