Indirect holographic imaging: Evaluation of image quality at 310 GHz

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7670, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tamminen, A ^a   Ala Laurinaho, J ^a   Raisanen A V ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Active imaging; holography; noise equivalent reflectivity difference; phase retrieval; point spread function; signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE IMAGING; AMPLITUDE DETECTION; COMPLEX FIELDS; CROSS-RANGE RESOLUTION; EDGE METHOD; EQUIVALENT REFLECTIVITY; HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGING; IMAGE SIGNAL; IMAGER PERFORMANCE; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGES; PHASE RETRIEVAL; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; REFERENCE FIELD; VARIABLE SYSTEMS;

HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFLECTION; TARGETS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 77953553245     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.852414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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