Statistical connection of binomial photon counting and photon averaging in high dynamic range beam-scanning microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10406-10415

  Muir, Ryan D ^a   Kissick, David J ^a   Simpson, Garth J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTON COUNTING; STATISTICAL MEAN;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS;

EID: 84861149553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010406     Document Type: Article

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