Optimization of thermal ghost imaging: High-order correlations vs. background subtraction

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5562-5573

  Chan, Kam Wai C ^a,b   O'Sullivan, Malcolm N ^a,b   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Rochester Optical Manufacturing Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCESSING;

BACKGROUND NORMALIZATION; BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; DATA PROCESSING METHODS; FIGURE OF MERIT; GHOST IMAGE; GHOST IMAGING; HIGH ORDER CORRELATION; HIGH-ORDER; SQUARE ROOTS;

DATA PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949602154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005562     Document Type: Article

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