When imaging through the atmosphere, the resulting image contains not only the desired scene, but also the adverse effects of all the turbulent air mass between the camera and the scene. These effects are viewed as a ...
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(纸本)0819463957
When imaging through the atmosphere, the resulting image contains not only the desired scene, but also the adverse effects of all the turbulent air mass between the camera and the scene. These effects are viewed as a combination of non-uniform blurring and random shifting of each point in the received short-exposure image. Corrections for both aspects of this combined distortion have been tackled reasonably successfully by previous efforts. A potentially more robust method of restoring the geometry is presented, which is also better suited to real-time implementation. The improvements were achieved by replacing the concept of prototype frame with the sequential registration of each frame with its nearest neighbour and the accurate accumulation of shiftmaps from any one frame to another without redundant calculations.
Myosin filaments are important components of striated muscle and pack in a semi-ordered, two-dimensional array. The array can be imaged by electron microscopy of thin cross-sections which indicates, for many species, ...
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(纸本)0819463957
Myosin filaments are important components of striated muscle and pack in a semi-ordered, two-dimensional array. The array can be imaged by electron microscopy of thin cross-sections which indicates, for many species, that the filaments adopt two orientations that are distributed with short-ranging order. We describe analysis and modelling of this substitution disorder based on the micrographs and an Ising model.
We introduce a new approach to imagereconstructionfrom highly incompletedata. The available data are assumed to be a small collection of spectral coefficients of an arbitrary linear transform. This reconstruction p...
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Extended interpolatory approximation is discussed for some classes of n-dimensional vector signals. Firstly, we present two sufficient conditions of the optimum approximation and prove that the proposed optimum approx...
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(纸本)0819463957
Extended interpolatory approximation is discussed for some classes of n-dimensional vector signals. Firstly, we present two sufficient conditions of the optimum approximation and prove that the proposed optimum approximation using fixed finite number of sample values satisfies these two conditions. Secondly, we discuss the optimum running approximation of n-dimensional time-limited vector signals based on a certain one-to-one correspondence between a vector signal and the corresponding vector error signal of approximation. The proposed optimum approximation has the minimum measure of error among almost all the linear and the nonlinear approximations using the same measure of error and generalized sample values. Note that the proposed optimum approximation can be realized by flexible FIR filter bank. The term "flexible" means that we can widely choose the number of paths and frequency response of time-invariant FIR analysis filters. Moreover, we can use sample points that are distributed on an arbitrary periodical pattern.
ClearPET (TM) is a family of small-animal PET scanners which are currently under development within the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CERN). All scanners are based on the same detector block design using individual LSO...
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ClearPET (TM) is a family of small-animal PET scanners which are currently under development within the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CERN). All scanners are based on the same detector block design using individual LSO and LuYAP crystals in phoswich configuration, coupled to multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. One of the scanners, the ClearPET (TM) Neuro is designed for applications in neuroscience. Four detector blocks with 64 2 x 2 x 10 turn LSO and LuYAP crystals, arranged in line, build a module. Twenty modules are arranged in a ring with a ring diameter of 13.8 cm and an axial size of 11.2 cm. An insensitive region at the border of the detector heads results in gaps between the detectors axially and tangentially. The detectors are rotating by 360 in step and shoot mode during data acquisition. Every second module is shifted axially to compensate partly for the gaps between the detector blocks in a module. This unconventional scanner geometry requires dedicated imagereconstruction procedures. data acquisition acquires single events that are stored with a time mark in a dedicated list mode format. Coincidences are associated off line by software. After sorting the data into 3D sinograms, imagereconstruction is performed using the Ordered Subset Maximum A Posteriori One-Step Late (OSMAPOSL) iterative algorithm implemented in the Software for Tomographic imagereconstruction (STIR) library. Due to the non-conventional scanner design, careful estimation of the sensitivity matrix is needed to obtain artifact-free images from the ClearPET (TM) Neuro. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
The Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy Library MEGAlib is a set of software tools designed to analyze data of the next generation of Compton telescopes. The library comprises all necessary data analysis steps fromdata...
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The Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy Library MEGAlib is a set of software tools designed to analyze data of the next generation of Compton telescopes. The library comprises all necessary data analysis steps fromdata acquisition or simulation via event reconstruction to imagereconstruction. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved.
The paper presents a novel approach for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cardiac perfusion imagereconstructionfrom sparse k-space data. It formulates the reconstruction problem in an inverse-methods setting....
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(纸本)9781424400324
The paper presents a novel approach for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cardiac perfusion imagereconstructionfrom sparse k-space data. It formulates the reconstruction problem in an inverse-methods setting. Relevant prior information is incorporated via a parametric model for the perfusion process. This wealth of prior information empowers the proposed method to give high-quality reconstructions fromvery sparse k-space data. The paper presents reconstruction results using both Cartesian and radial sampling strategies using data simulated from a real acquisition. The proposed method produces high-quality reconstructions using 14% of the k-space data. The model-based approach can potentially greatly benefit cardiac myocardial perfusion studies as well as other dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI applications including tumor imaging.
In this paper, the problem of estimating from a finite set of measurements of the radar remotely sensed complex data signals, the power spatial spectrum pattern (SSP) of the wavefield sources distributed in the enviro...
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(纸本)9781424404810
In this paper, the problem of estimating from a finite set of measurements of the radar remotely sensed complex data signals, the power spatial spectrum pattern (SSP) of the wavefield sources distributed in the environment is cast in the framework of Bayesian minimum risk (MR) paradigm unified with the experiment design (ED) regularization technique. The fused MR-ED regularization of the ill-posed nonlinear inverse problem of the SSP reconstruction is performed via incorporating into the MR estimation strategy the projection-regularization ED constraints. The simulation examples are incorporated to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed unified MR-ED technique.
We present a novel approach to create plausible 3D face models fromvague recollections or incomplete descriptions. This task plays an important role in police work, where composite facial images of suspects need to b...
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We present a novel approach to create plausible 3D face models fromvague recollections or incomplete descriptions. This task plays an important role in police work, where composite facial images of suspects need to be created fromvague descriptions given by the eyewitnesses of an incident. Our approach is based on a morphable model of 3D faces and takes into account correlations among facial features based on human anatomy and ethnicity. Using these correlations, unspecified parts of the target face are automatically completed to yield a coherent face model. The system uses a novel paradigm for navigating face space and provides high-level control of facial attributes as well as the possibility to import facial features from a database. In addition, the user can specify a set of attribute constraints that are used to restrict the target face to a residual subspace. These constraints can also be enforced on the example faces in the database, bringing their appearance closer to the mental image of the user and thus avoiding confusing exposure to entirely different faces. We also propose a novel approach for adapting the system to local populations based on additional imagedatabases that are converted into our 3D representation by automated shape reconstruction. We demonstrate the applicability of our system in a simulated forensic scenario and compare our results with those obtained by a professional forensic artist using state-of-the-art software for creating composite images in police work.
The position of the rotation axis (center of rotation) is an important input parameter for the reconstruction of tomography data. We have recently presented a method for the determination of the center of rotation fro...
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(纸本)0819463973
The position of the rotation axis (center of rotation) is an important input parameter for the reconstruction of tomography data. We have recently presented a method for the determination of the center of rotation from sinogram data recorded in parallel-beam tomography, which is based on scoring of reconstructions with image metrics. The influence of noise on the metric value is investigated by simulation using a circular computer phantom. Limits on the precision of the method are discussed by calculation of the metric signal and its noise level. It is shown that for typical count rates and resolutions used in microtomographic imaging, the method enables to determine the center of rotation with a precision of better than 0.06 pixel.
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