Reducing noise in extended depth of field microscope images by optical manipulation of the point spread function

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7904, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zahreddine, Ramzi N ^a   Cormack, Robert H ^a   Cogswell, Carol J ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

3D microscopy; Adaptive optics; Extended depth of field; Neural networks; Noise removal; PSF engineering

Indexed keywords

3-D MICROSCOPY; EXTENDED DEPTH OF FIELD; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; IMPROVED METHODS; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; NOISE REMOVAL; NON-LINEAR; OBJECT TRACKING; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; OPTICS PRINCIPLE; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; PSF ENGINEERING; REDUCING NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79955145115     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.881296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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