Modulation Transfer Function Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

We present an analytical model for the photon recycling effect associated with the reabsorption of generated photons in a light-emitting diode (LED) driven by nonuniform current injected from a quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP). The model is applied to the evaluation of the modulation transfer function and the external quantum efficiency in pixelless imaging devices based on the integration of a QWIP with a LED. The modulation transfer function and the signal external quantum efficiency of a QWIP-LED pixelless imager are calculated as functions of the structural physical and geometrical parameters. It is shown that photon recycling is a significant factor that limits the spatial resolution of images and increases the external quantum efficiency.

2025

Earth science research and application requirements for multispectral data have often been driven by currently available remote sensing technology. Few parametric studies exist that specify data required for certain applications. Consequently, data requirements are often defined based on the best data available or on what has worked successfully in the past. Since properties such as spatial resolution, swath width, spectral bands, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), data quantization and band-to-band registration drive sensor platform and spacecraft system architecture and cost, analysis of these criteria is important to optimize system design objectively. Remote sensing data requirements are also linked to calibration and characterization methods. Parameters such as spatial resolution, radiometric accuracy and geopositional accuracy affect the complexity and cost of calibration methods. However, few studies have quantified the true accuracies required for specific problems. As calibration methods and standards are proposed, it is important that they be tied to well-known data requirements. The Application Research Toolbox (ART) developed at the John C. Stennis Space Center provides a simulation-based method for multispectral data requirements development. The ART produces simulated datasets from hyperspectral data through band synthesis. Parameters such as spectral band shape and width, SNR, data quantization, spatial resolution and band-to-band registration can be varied to create many different simulated data products. Simulated data utility can then be assessed for different applications so that requirements can be better understood.

2025

Several years ago, a method for measurement of image resolution for digital cameras using slanted-edge gradient analysis was adopted by the ISO. More recently, this method has been applied to the spatial frequency response and MTF of film and print scanners and CRT displays. We have previously described several causes of both bias and variation error in terms of the various signal processing steps involved. This analysis, when combined with observations from practical system testing, suggests modifications and extensions to the original method. We review several sources of measurement error and how to avoid them by careful data collection and processing. This involves refinements in data screening for signal encoding problems and improved edge-feature location and slope estimation.

2025, Image Processing, Image Quality, Image Capture Systems Conference

It has been almost five years since the ISO adopted a standard for measurement of image resolution of digital still cameras using slanted-edge gradient analysis. The method has also been applied to the spatial frequency response and MTF of film and print scanners, and CRT displays. Each of these applications presents challenges to the use of the method. Previously, we have described causes of both bias and variation error in terms of the various signal processing steps involved. This analysis, when combined with observations from practical systems testing, has suggested improvements and interpretation of results. Specifically, refinements in data screening for signal encoding problems, edge feature location and slope estimation, and noise resilience will be addressed.

2025, Image Quality and System Performance

Modulation transfer function (MTF) metrology and interpretation for digital image capture devices has usually concentrated on mid-to high-frequency information, relative to the half-sampling frequency. These regions typically quantify characteristics and operations such as sharpening, limiting resolution, and aliasing. However, a potential wealth of low-frequency, visually significant information is often masked in existing measurement results because of spatial data truncation. For print or document scanners, this influences measurements in the spatial frequency range of 0 to 2.0 cycles/mm, where the effects of veiling flare, micro flare, and integrating cavity effect (ICE) often manifest themselves. Using a form of edge-gradient analysis based on slanted edges, we present a method for measurement of these characteristics. By carefully adapting this well-established technique, these phenomena can be quantified. We also show how, in many cases, these effects can be treated as other spread-function or device-MTF components. The theory and field metrology of several devices using the adapted technique are also presented.

2025

2025, Clinical and Experimental Optometry

We assessed the effects of aging on visual function and optical quality in a healthy adult population and provide reference values for different age ranges. We conducted a prospective study with 198 healthy volunteers from 31 to 70 years of age. The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and contrast sensitivity (CS) at 3, 6, 12 and 18 cycles per degree (cpd) frequencies were assessed, together with values of optical quality and intraocular scattering obtained with a double-pass system, specifically the modulation transfer function cutoff frequency (MTF cutoff ), the Strehl ratio, the OQAS Values (OV) at contrasts 100%, 20% and 9% and the objective scatter index (OSI). We studied the progression of these variables with age and obtained standard values for optical quality and intraocular scattering parameters for four age groups: 31-40 years, 41-50, 51-60, and 61-70. We found significant correlations between age and all variables analyzed and significant differences among the age groups considered except for CS (3 cpd) (p=0.067). Age decline particularly affected low-contrast parameters such as the OV 9% and the OSI, which decreased to 37% and 50% of their original value, respectively. The OSI was found to provide high sensitivity and specificity values when healthy and caratactous eyes were considered. The results suggest that optical deficits are compensated until 50 years of age with sensory and perceptual factors, since smaller changes were found for visual function than for objective measurements of optical quality and intraocular scattering. Reference values can be used to determine normal limits of optical quality and intraocular scattering for diagnosis of ocular conditions.

2025, Applied Optics

Rough surfaces in translucent protective sheets are used in imaging systems, such as displays, to decrease specular reflections of external sources. However, they modify the quality of the images formed by transmission. Using a geometric approximation, we have modeled the behavior of rough surfaces in imaging systems. This model provides an analytical expression for the modulation transfer function of rough surfaces.

2025, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

2025, Applied Optics

We derive the Strehl ratio for a segmented mirror telescope as a function of the rms segment phase error and the observing wavelength, with and without the effects of the atmosphere. A simple analytical expression is given for the atmosphere-free case. Although our specific results are in the context of the Keck telescope, they are presented in a way that should be readily adaptable to other segmented geometries. We also derive the corresponding modulation transfer functions. These results are useful in determining how accurately a segmented mirror telescope needs to be phased for a variety of observing applications.

2025, Applied Optics

The observation of magnetic and velocity (circulation) field structure on a synoptic basis and with diffraction-limited resolution is the aim. New optical features include the use of oversize mirrors and windows (to avoid thermal edge effects) and the placement of the coelostat feed outside the vacuum, mainly for economy. The site selected has prevailing winds that clear thermals from these mirrors. Test data in the form of the system MTF and optical transmission, together with examples of full disk magnetograms and photoheliograms, show present performance capability. Measured MTF indicates a response of 0.2 at 1 sec of arc (whereas diffraction-limited response would be 0.8). System transmission, including the accompanying spectrograph, is only 2-3% (XO.44-1.1 m). Thus, both the optical quality and efficiency are subject to improvement. Modern observational solar astronomy lies on the edge of a high resolution frontier. It has long suffered from the notion that diffraction-limited images cannot be expected from apertures greater than 30 cm. The argument that the scale height of the solar photosphere (which is -200 km) establishes a lower limit to the size of physical structures and the restrictions of image transmission, or seeing, in the earth's atmosphere, have been the prevailing excuses. Both these ideas have proven false. The scale height argument fails to take into account the role of magnetic forces, which, we now infer, produces filamentary concentrations having a cross section of 50 km. Concerning seeing, the new 76-cm aperture vacuum tower at Sacramento Peakl-4 regularly achieves subsec of arc resolution of -'0".3, corresponding to 250 km on the sun. The Aerospace 5 and Big Bear Vacuum telescopes similarly yield optics-limited images. The recipe appears to be an evacuated light path and diffraction-limited optical components that do not significantly deform under prolonged solar radiation. The purpose of the 60-cm Kitt Peak telescope is to apply the above high-resolution prescription with special thought for the needs of magnetic and velocity field measurements. Observation of magnetic fields by means of the Zeeman effect measurements imply a large and stable spectrograph. These features are incorporated in the new design.

2025

The launch of Cartosat-1 is the beginning of yet another series of satellite mission after IRS satellites for earth observation and natural resource management applications. The first in its series of satellite for Cartographic applications, Cartosat-1 was launched on 5th May 2005. The along-track stereo viewing capability was realized by employing two cameras viz. FORE with mounting pitch angle of 26deg and AFT with that of –5deg with respect to nadir. The camera-mounting angle combined with the agility of camera in Roll, Pitch and Yaw direction to achieve better revisit created blend of viewing geometries. The Chharodi test site with its known dimension and artificial targets with controlled time-invariant radiometric properties were used to evaluate sensor specific parameters under these viewing geometries. Modulation Transfer Function, Square Wave Response, Point Spread Function and adjacency effect parameters were evaluated for FORE and AFT cameras. Along and across track spati...

2025, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

In the framework of the Medipix collaboration the PCC, a single photon counting pixel chip, has been developed with the aim of improving the contrast resolution in medical imaging applications. The PCC consists of a matrix of 64;64 square pixels with 170 m side length, each pixel comprising a 15-bit counter and a pulse-height discriminator. The chip has been bump bonded to equally segmented 200 m thick SI-LEC GaAs detectors showing a very high absorption energy for X-rays used in diagnostics. An absolute calibration of the system with a radioactive source and a synchrotron beam are described resulting in the value of the test input capacitance of &24.7 fF. Using this value a full characterisation of the system from electrical measurements is presented. The entire system can reach a minimum threshold of &2100e\ with &250e\ rms noise. One of the characteristic features of the PCC is the possibility to adjust the thresholds of all pixels on a pixel-by-pixel basis with 3-bit precision. The threshold distribution after adjustment is &120e\ rms. The spatial resolution of the system has been measured to be 3.6 lp/mm. A comparison of a tooth image taken with the PCC and with a screen-CCD-system demonstrates its imaging capabilities.

2025

This is a publisher’s version of an article published in Australian Journal of Audiology 1994. This version is reproduced with permission from the publisher, Australian Academic Press. http://www.australianacademicpress.com.au/

2025, Archiving Conference

Technological advance causes obsolescence and unpredictable lifetimes of digital storage media and systems. We present PEVIAR, a digital archival solution based on microfilm that offers superior lifetime and independence from proprietary hardware and software technologies. Digital data is to be stored as a 2-dimensional raster image. In order to determine the technical parameters of our system, we carry out an investigation of the device setup given by a recorder, the film itself and a scanner. We measure the modulation transfer function of these components and the granularity of the film material. We also propose a 2-dimensional channel model incorporating intersymbol interference. From our examinations we conclude that a resolution of 8µm can be achieved.

2025, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

The information content of medical images produced by X-ray beam±scintillator interaction was assessed by a method involving detective quantum eciency (DQE) and information capacity determination. The method was based on emitted light ¯uence and modulation transfer function (MTF) measurements and it was employed to evaluate the performance of (Gd 0X5 La 0X5 ) 2 O 2 S:Tb scintillator, which was used in the form of laboratory prepared scintillator screens with coating weights ranging between 20 and 139 mgacm 2 . Screens were excited to luminescence using 80 and 120 kVp X-ray beams. The 83 mgacm 2 scintillator layer exhibited the highest DQE at zero spatial frequency. Thick scintillator layers displayed higher DQE values in the low frequency range while at high frequencies the DQE of thin scintillators were higher. Additionally, thin scintillator layers showed slow DQE variation with increasing frequency. The information capacity of scintillator layers decreased with increasing coating weight indicating that the information content of images produced by thin scintillating layers is higher and more evenly distributed with respect to spatial frequencies.

2025, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

The spatial-frequency-dependent detective quantum efficiency (DQE) of imaging scintillators was studied independently of the optical detector (film, photocathode, or photodiode) employed in medical imaging devices. A method was developed to experimentally determine the scintillator DQE in terms of its luminescence efficiency (LE), quantum detection efficiency, modulation transfer function, and light emission spectrum. Gd202S : Tb, La202S : Tb, Y202S : Tb and ZnSCdS : Ag scintillating screens were prepared in laboratory and were excited to luminescence by a medical X-ray tube. Maximum DQE values varied between 0.13 and 0.33 depending on the scintillator material, the screen coating weight, and the tube voltage; Gd202S : Tb was superior to La202S : Tb followed by ZnSCdS : Ag and YzO~S : Tb. This ranking was maintained at frequencies up to 100 cycles/cm. Considering the same material, DQE of thin screens was found superior to DQE of thicker screens at mediumto-high frequencies. The proposed method allows for the comparison of imaging characteristics of scintillating materials without the inclusion of optical detector imaging properties.

2025, European Journal of Radiology

Objective: to study various phosphors used in detectors of medical imaging systems by the gain transfer function (GTF), defined in terms of X-ray luminescence efficiency, light spectrum and modulation transfer function. Materials and methods: four phosphor materials, La 2 O 2 S:Tb, Y 2 O 2 S:Tb, Y 2 O 2 S:Eu and Y 2 O 3 :Eu were used in the form of fluorescent layers prepared in the laboratory. The GTF was determined at 30 kVp and 80 kVp X-ray tube voltages for various phosphor coating weights. Results: La 2 O 2 S:Tb, which was the highest density and effective atomic number phosphor used, was found to exhibit the best GTF performance at 80 kVp. At 30 kVp, the yttrium based phosphors were found of increased performance. This is mainly due to the proximity of the X-ray energy to the K-absorption edge of yttrium at 17 keV. Europium activated phosphors were found to perform very well when combined with the red sensitive film and the silicon photodiode. Conclusion: The GTF may be a useful method for comparing and selecting phosphor materials for use in various medical imaging applications.

2025, Applied Radiation and Isotopes

The aim of this study was to investigate how the activator type affects the performance of X-ray scintillators. To this aim the behavior of scintillator materials was modeled under X-ray excitation conditions, similar to those used in imaging techniques. The model describes the light emission efficiency, the spectral compatibility with optical detectors (films, photodiodes, and photocathodes), and the imaging capabilities of a scintillating layer. Using the model equations the role of the activator type in scintillator performance was examined. Activators affect some important properties of materials, like the intrinsic X-ray to light conversion efficiency, the spectrum of the emitted light, and the light attenuation coefficients. The performances of a high-efficiency material (Gd 2 O 2 S) combined with either Tb 3+ or Eu 3+ activators were compared. Results showed that the terbium-activated material exhibited high emission efficiency (number of emitted photons per incident X-ray) and modulation transfer function (spatial resolution and image contrast) while the europium activated material showed slightly better signal-to-noise ratio properties at low spatial frequencies. Both materials were found to exhibit high spectral compatibility with currently used modern optical detectors. In conclusion, the choice of activator may improve spectral compatibility, but care must be taken because it may also alter emission efficiency and image quality.

2025

Робота присвячена підвищенню точності методу визначення мінімальної роздільної різниці температур (МРРТ) тепловізійних систем за рахунок удосконалення моделі візуального сприйняття термографічних зображень оператором. Розглянуто алгоритм отримання рівняння для розрахунку МРРТ, в основі якого лежить більш достовірна апроксимація модуляційної передавальної функції зорової системи, що запропонована Шульцем. Отримано новий вираз для коефіцієнта ширини смуги для апроксимації Шульца, який не залежить від кутового розміру штриха міри Фуко. Отримано удосконалене рівняння для розрахунку МРРТ, аналіз якого показав, що воно збігається з відомими рівняннями для певного кутового розміру штриха міри Фуко. Встановлено межі достовірності цього рівняння в області просторого інтегрування зорової системи від 1 до 5,7 кут. мінути. Розглянуто приклад розрахунку МРРТ для тепловізора Thermal Eye TSC. Отримано аналітичні рівняння для розрахунку МРРТ за апроксимацій Шульца і Ллойда, які різняться між собою....

2024, Vision Research

Reaction times for incremental and decremental stimuli were measured at five suprathreshold contrasts for six retinal illuminance levels where rods alone (0.002-0.2 Trolands), rods and cones (2-20 Trolands) or cones alone (200 Trolands) mediated detection. A 4-primary photostimulator allowed independent control of rod or cone excitations. This is the first report of reaction times to isolated rod or cone stimuli at mesopic light levels under the same adaptation conditions. The main findings are: 1) For rods, responses to decrements were faster than increments, but cone reaction times were closely similar. 2) At light levels where both systems were functional, rod reaction times were ~20 ms longer. The data were fitted with a computational model that incorporates rod and cone impulse response functions and a stimulus-dependent neural sensory component that triggers a motor response. Rod and cone impulse response functions were derived from published psychophysical two-pulse threshold data and temporal modulation transfer functions. The model fits were accomplished with a limited number of free parameters: two global parameters to estimate the irreducible minimum reaction time for each receptor type, and one local parameter for each reaction time versus contrast function. This is the first model to provide a neural basis for the variation in reaction time with retinal illuminance, stimulus contrast, stimulus polarity, and receptor class modulated.

2024, Proceedings of SPIE

Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) is an important figure of merit in focal pllyle array sensors, especially for accurate target positions such as star trackers. In-situ evaluation by MTF in different stages of imager system developments is necessary for an ideal design of different sensors and their signal processing. Understanding the tradeoff between different figures of merit will enable designers to achieve the most efficient design in specific missions. Advanced active pixel test sensors have been designed and fabricated where different pixel shapes were placed. Research on analyzing the "I?? for the proper pixel shape is currently in progress for a centroidal configuration of a star. Explicit formulas for the modulation transfer function have been studied for the rectangular shaped pixel array. MTF will give us a more complete understanding of the tradeoffs opposed by the different pixel designs and by the signa4 processing conditions. In this paper, preliminary results of two different active pixel sensor (A P S) focal plane arrays are presented in terms of crosstalk using a laser. MTF measurements of the A P S arrays are achieved by applying only a single image. A rising or falling edge rather than the conventional bar target of slit scanning is needed to perform the measurement in each direction for the evaluation of the design efficiency.

2024, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Multiscale composite models based on the Bragg theory are widely used to study the normalized radar cross‐section (NRCS) over the sea surface. However, these models are not able to correctly reproduce the NRCS in all configurations and wind wave conditions. We have developed a physical model that takes into account, not only the Bragg mechanism, but also the non‐Bragg scattering mechanism associated with wave breaking. A single model was built to explain on the same physical basis both the background behavior of the NRCS and the wave radar Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) at HH and VV polarization. The NRCS is assumed to be the sum of a Bragg part (two‐scale model) and of a non‐Bragg part. The description of the sea surface is based on the short wind wave spectrum (wavelength from few millimeters to few meters) developed by Kudryavtsev et al. [1999] and wave breaking statistics proposed by Phillips [1985]. We assume that non‐Bragg scattering is supported by quasi‐specular reflecti...

2024

Two point resolution is not unambiguously defined, it is interpreted in many ways by many researchers. In this paper, which reviews the concept of optical resolution, a number of these interpretations are discussed. A discussion of resolution preceded by the classical approach to the study of two-point resolution are dealt. The well-known resolution criterion of Sparrow and Rayleigh resolution criterion are surveyed, Only an ideal imaging system can reproduce an infinitesimally small point object as an infinitesimally small point image. An ideal imaging system is one in which diffraction and aberrations are absent. A point-source object can be represented mathematically by a delta function called the "Point Spread Function (PSF)". This spread of light in the image is determined jointly by diffraction, aberration and also the non-uniformity of amplitude and/or phase transmission specified by the pupil function, if, particularly, the optical system is apodised. Resolution also depends on the coherence conditions of illuminance. Light waves from two distinct self-luminous point sources are incoherent, as is true for double stars imaged by a telescope. Incoherent imaging is linear in intensity. Therefore the intensity distribution produced by two incoherent point sources is obtained by adding their separate intensity diffraction patterns. Apodization processes narrowing the main lobe of the point-spread function improve the resolution in the sense of the classical criteria. However, these criteria are based on calculated images for which in principle no obvious limit to resolution exists. It remains to be seen if apodization still enhances resolution if it is applied to detect images.

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2024, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

C band RADARSAT‐2 fully polarimetric (fine quad‐polarization mode, HH+VV+HV+VH) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are used to validate ocean surface waves measurements using the polarimetric SAR wave retrieval algorithm, without estimating the complex hydrodynamic modulation transfer function, even under large radar incidence angles. The linearly polarized radar backscatter cross sections (RBCS) are first calculated with the copolarization (HH, VV) and cross‐polarization (HV, VH) RBCS and the polarization orientation angle. Subsequently, in the azimuth direction, the vertically and linearly polarized RBCS are used to measure the wave slopes. In the range direction, we combine horizontally and vertically polarized RBCS to estimate wave slopes. Taken together, wave slope spectra can be derived using estimated wave slopes in azimuth and range directions. Wave parameters extracted from the resultant wave slope spectra are validated with colocated National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buo...

2024

NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. Measurements of some of the properties of high-degree solar p- and f- mode oscillations are presented. Using high-resolution velocity images from Big Bear Solar Observatory, we have measured mode frequencies, which provide information about the composition and internal structure of the Sun, and mode velocity amplitudes (corrected for the effects of atmospheric seeing), which tell us about the oscillation excitation and damping mechanisms. We present a new and more accurate table of the Sun's acoustic vibration frequencies, [...], as a function of radial order n and spherical harmonic degree l. These frequencies are averages over azimuthal order m and approximate the normal mode frequencies of a nonrotating, spherically symmetric Sun near solar minimum. The frequencies presented here are for solar p- and f- modes with [...], [...], and [...]. The uncertainties, [...]...

2024

Space Situational Awareness has become a key issue both for defense and civilian/industrial applications. Identification of potential or active threats and monitoring of key assets and operations are at stake. This activity also includes the follow up of dedicated satellites (such as telecommunication, observation), traffic handling, debris identification and tracking. We present current work performed at Onera on Adaptive Optics (AO) for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite imaging. We describe briefly our AO system and its performance. We also address recent developments on image post-processing based on marginalized blind deconvolution combined to parsimonious PSF modelling. Finally, we present on sky results.

2024, SPIE Proceedings

Resist resolution remains a significant issue for EUV. Strong concerns remain with the use of chemically amplified resist owing to their diffusion characteristics. Currently EUV resist development is primarily focused on large-scale screening efforts in an attempt to identify platforms showing promise in a variety of areas with resolution arguably being the parameter of highest importance at this time. The characterization of the intrinsic resolution limit of resists, however, is not a trivial issue due to practical complications such as pattern collapse and top-loss. Note that the intrinsic resist resolution limit has been claimed to be determined by the resist diffusion length and various metrics have been proposed to characterize this diffusion length as well as resist resolution. Here we investigate a variety of resolution and diffusion length metrics and study the correlation between these metrics and observed resist performance when applied to a variety of leading EUV resists. The metrics we study include iso-focal bias, line-edge-roughness correlation length, resist modulation transfer function, corner rounding, and through-dose sub-resolution contact printing.

2024, International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences (IJAAS)

This study aims to develop an automatic method for calculating slice thickness on an American College of Radiology (ACR) phantom and evaluate its accuracy at variations of orientation angle and slice thickness. The phantom was scanned using Siemens SOMATOM perspective, with variations of the slice thickness (i.e. 1.5, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 10 mm) and rotation angles (i.e. 0.0, 22.5, 45.0, and 67.5°). The phantom rotation was based on the bone object as a reference. After determining the rotation angle, the phantom image was rotated by the angle. Next, profiles of pixel values across the wire objects for measuring slice thickness were developed from rotated phantom images. The slice thickness was measured automatically from the obtained profiles. The results of the automated method are 2.5, 4.1, 5.4, 5.8, 7.8, and 9.8 mm for all varied slice thicknesses. The differences between the automatic and manual methods are within 0.3 mm. The automatic method is capable of detecting slice thickness for various angles. The differences in slice thickness for various angles are within 0.1 mm for a slice thickness of 3 mm. These results are similar when compared to manual measurements. An algorithm for automated slice thickness measurement on ACR phantom has been successfully developed.

2024, Survey of Ophthalmology

A significant advantage of Fourier optics over classical optics is that it permits a differentiation between optical and retinal-neural causes of visual impairment. The basic methods of Fourier optics are introduced in a nonmathematical manner, as are their relationship to current clinical m&hods of measuring visual performance. Potential ophthalmic applications for Fourier optics in both clinical diagnosis and pre-operative ocular evaluation are discussed, and the importance of clinical measurement of visual performance at intermediate contrast states is emphasized. (SW Ophthalmol 23:135-142, 1978)

2024, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

2024, Proceedings of SPIE

A modulation transfer function (MTF) calibration method based on binary pseudo-random (BPR) gratings and arrays [Proc. SPIE 7077-7 (2007), Opt. Eng. 47(7), 073602-1-5 (2008)] has been proven to be an effective MTF calibration method for a number of interferometric microscopes and a scatterometer [Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 616, 172-82 (2010]. Here we report on a significant expansion of the application range of the method. We describe the MTF calibration of a 6 inch phase shifting Fizeau interferometer. Beyond providing a direct measurement of the interferometer's MTF, tests with a BPR array surface have revealed an asymmetry in the instrument's data processing algorithm that fundamentally limits its bandwidth. Moreover, the tests have illustrated the effects of the instrument's detrending and filtering procedures on power spectral density measurements. The details of the development of a BPR test sample suitable for calibration of scanning and transmission electron microscopes are also presented. Such a test sample is realized as a multilayer structure with the layer thicknesses of two materials corresponding to BPR sequence. The investigations confirm the universal character of the method that makes it applicable to a large variety of metrology instrumentation with spatial wavelength bandwidths from a few nanometers to hundreds of millimeters.

2024, Optical Engineering

The major problem of measurement of a power spectral density (PSD) distribution of surface heights with surface profilometers arises due to the unknown Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) of the instruments, which tends to distort the PSD at higher spatial frequencies. The special mathematical properties of binary pseudo-random patterns make them an ideal basis for developing MTF calibration test surfaces. Two-dimensional binary pseudo-random arrays (BPRAs) have been fabricated and used for the MTF calibration of the MicroMap TM-570 interferometric microscope with all available objectives. An investigation into the effects of fabrication imperfections on the quality of the MTF calibration and a procedure for accounting for such imperfections are presented.

2024, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena

Optical metrology tools, especially for short wavelengths (extreme ultraviolet and x-ray), must cover a wide range of spatial frequencies from the very low, which affects figure, to the important mid-spatial frequencies and the high spatial frequency range, which produces undesirable scattering. A major difficulty in using surface profilometers arises due to the unknown point-spread function (PSF) of the instruments [G. D. Boreman, Modulation Transfer Function in Optical and Electro-Optical Systems (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2001)] that is responsible for distortion of the measured surface profile. Generally, the distortion due to the PSF is difficult to account for because the PSF is a complex function that comes to the measurement via the convolution operation, while the measured profile is described with a real function. Accounting for instrumental PSF becomes significantly simpler if the result of measurement of a profile is presented in the spatial frequency domain as a power spect...

2024, Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of rectangular region of interest (ROI) size on modulation transfer function (MTF), to develop the radial ROI, and to compare both ROIs performances for MTF measurement using a cylindrical polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) phantom. The PMMA phantom used in this study was rotated 45°. Four rectangular ROIs and a radial ROI were created to measure the MTF value. The rectangular ROI sizes were 3×41, 21×41, 41×41, and 61×41 pixels; each was placed at upper phantom edge. The radial ROI's length was 41 pixels and placed at several points in phantom edge. The MTF calculation was automatically conducted using MATLAB. The MTFs from rectangular ROIs and radial ROI were then compared. The comparison of the MTF measurement was also conducted using three different filters. The MTF which used radial ROI was smoother than those of rectangular ROI for all filters. This indicated that radial ROI was more resistant to noise than rectangular ROI. Rectangular ROI with the 41×41 pixels had similar 50% and 10% MTF values with the radial ROI. The MTF value which was obtained using radial ROI is more accurate and robust than those obtained using rectangular ROI.

2024, Medical Physics

Electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) based on indirect detection, active matrix flat panel imagers (AMFPIs) have become the technology of choice for geometric verification of patient localization and dose delivery in external beam radiotherapy. However, current AMFPI EPIDs, which are based on powdered‐phosphor screens, make use of only of the incident radiation, thus severely limiting their imaging performance as quantified by the detective quantum efficiency (DQE) (, compared to for kilovoltage AMFPIs). With the rapidly increasing adoption of image‐guided techniques in virtually every aspect of radiotherapy, there exist strong incentives to develop high‐DQE megavoltage x‐ray imagers, capable of providing soft‐tissue contrast at very low doses in megavoltage tomographic and, potentially, projection imaging. In this work we present a systematic theoretical and preliminary empirical evaluation of a promising, high‐quantum‐efficiency, megavoltage x‐ray detector design based on a t...

2024, Applied Optics

The experimental data allow us to determine the imaging quality of holographic gratings with photosensitive film using organic material based on a polyvinyl alcohol matrix doped with potassium dichromate and nickel (II) chloride hexahydrate. The diffraction efficiency is estimated by different spatial frequencies, and the readout image quality is analyzed by the modulation transfer function. The experiment is carried out, with and without voltage application, at different spatial frequencies to obtain the image quality of photosensitive film.

2024, BER2023 Abstract Book ISBN 978-84-09-53100-4

The study of childhood cancer in Colombia has become a priority for the health system, since: There
is detection in advanced stages, late attention, secondary and adverse effects after conventional
treatment.
This causes a great socioeconomic impact and a high mortality rate in childhood, since cancer is one
of the leading causes of mortality and this phenomenon is recognized worldwide1.
One of the main reasons is that its treatment is not selective and children who have suffered from
it experience recurrence of the disease after conventional treatment by chemotherapy,
radiotherapy or surgery, in addition to secondary and adverse effects, given that these treatments
not only eliminate cancer cells but normal ones; that is, there is no selectivity for leukemic cells.
The motivation of this research project is to design, build and launch an experimental setup that
allows the implementation of a new technology that targets and treats leukemia cells without
harming the surrounding environment (normal cells), called optical therapy2.
This technology is the subject of research around the world (it has not only allowed biomedical
advances, but also at an industrial, technological and engineering level).
The application of light energy in biological tissues, it can give rise to different applications in both
biological sciences and health sciences3.
Therefore, experiments will be carried out that allow studying the light-matter interaction, through
optical therapy with laser and led sources that promise a new revolution in the research field, since
they have good space-time resolution, which it makes it selective according to its wavelength and
specific according to its directionality.
Keywords: Biophotonics, Irradiation, LASER, LED, Leukemia.

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2024, Optics and Lasers in Engineering

It is shown theoretically and verified experimentally that by writing a low spatial frequency Ronchi grating by a computer and printing two copies of it on two transparencies by a printer, the modulation transfer function (MTF) of the printed image can be evaluated by measuring the transmittance of the superimposed gratings in a moire´fringe spacing. Application of the technique is quite simple and the results are reasonably reproducible. The technique does not require a high sensitive intensity detector and a very narrow slit for transmission scanning. Also, the presented technique can be applied to other imaging systems.

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The mid-infrared region plays a key role in a diverse set of applications such as defense countermeasures, space communication and selective molecular spectroscopy. The backbone of these applications relies on the high performance emitters and detectors that can be manufactured at lower prices and can operate at room temperature. There are multiple alternatives available in the emitter side yet the detector technology is highly dependent on the mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) material system which requires cooling to the liquid nitrogen temperatures, and has a low yield. This dissertation investigates the II-VI material system, namely ZnCdSe/ZnCdMgSe as an alternative to have a broadband coverage in the mid-infrared region and achieve complex tasks like multiband detection where the high device yield is essential. Multiband detectors are crucial tools to accomplish absolute temperature detection with lower false alarm ratings, yet they have complicated designs and require wide cover...

2024

The Sun’s supergranulation refers to a physical pattern covering the surface of the quiet Sun with a typical horizontal scale of approximately 30 000 kilometres and a lifetime of around 1.8 days. Its most noticeable observable signature is as a fluctuating velocity field of 360 m/s rms whose components are mostly horizontal. Supergranulation was discovered more than fifty years ago, however explaining why and how it originates still represents one of the main challenges of modern solar physics. A lot of work has been devoted to the subject over the years, but observational constraints, conceptual difficulties and numerical limitations have all concurred to prevent a detailed un-derstanding of the supergranulation phenomenon so far. With the advent of 21st century supercomputing resources and the availability of unprecedented high-resolution observations of the Sun, a stage at which key progress can be made has now been reached. A unify-ing strategy between observations and modelling...

2024, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Lead oxide (PbO) is a candidate direct conversion material for medical X-ray applications. We produced various samples and detectors with thick PbO layers. X-ray performance data such as dark current, charge generation yield and temporal behavior were evaluated on small samples. The influence of the metal contacts was studied in detail. We also covered large a-Si thin-film transistor (TFT)-plates with PbO. Imaging results from a large detector with an active area of 18 cm 20 cm are presented. The detector has 960 1080 pixels with a pixel pitch of 184 m. The modulation transfer function at the Nyquist frequency of 2.72 linepairs/mm is 50%. Finally, a full size X-ray image is presented.

2024, Visual Neuroscience

Many rodents do not see well. For a target to be resolved by a rat or a mouse, it must subtend a visual angle of a degree or more. It is commonly assumed that this poor spatial resolving capacity is due to neural rather than optical limitations, but the quality of the retinal image has not been well characterized in these animals. We have modified a double-pass apparatus, initially designed for the human eye, so it could be used with rodents to measure the modulation transfer function (MTF) of the eye's optics. That is, the double-pass retinal image of a monochromatic (λ = 632.8 nm) point source was digitized with a CCD camera. From these double-pass measurements, the single-pass MTF was computed under a variety of conditions of focus and with different pupil sizes. Even with the eye in best focus, the image quality in both rats and mice is exceedingly poor. With a 1-mm pupil, for example, the MTF in the rat had an upper limit of about 2.5 cycles/deg, rather than the 28 cycles/d...

2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Previous demonstrations of free-space quantum communication in daylight have been touted as significant for the development of global-scale quantum networks. Until now, no one has carefully tuned their atmospheric channel to reproduce the daytime sky radiance and slant-path turbulence conditions as they exist between space and Earth. In this article we report a quantum communication field experiment under conditions representative of daytime downlinks from space. Higher-order adaptive optics increased quantum channel efficiencies far beyond those possible with tip/tilt correction alone while spatial filtering at the diffraction limit rejected optical noise without the need for an ultra-narrow spectral filter. High signal-to-noise probabilities and low quantum-bit-error rates were demonstrated over a wide range of channel radiances and turbulence conditions associated with slant-path propagation in daytime. The benefits to satellite-based quantum key distribution are quantified and discussed.