Generalized confocal imaging and synthetic aperture imaging

Authors
Leith, EN Mills, KD Naulleau, PP Dilworth, DS Iglesias, I Chen, HS
Citation
En. Leith et al., Generalized confocal imaging and synthetic aperture imaging, J OPT SOC A, 16(12), 1999, pp. 2880-2886
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION
ISSN journal
10847529 → ACNP
Volume
16
Issue
12
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2880 - 2886
Database
ISI
SICI code
1084-7529(199912)16:12<2880:GCIASA>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Synthetic aperture imaging is treated as a confocal process. The point-spre ad function of the synthetic aperture process is narrower than that of conv entional imaging by a factor of 0.5, whereas the conventional confocal proc ess offers resolution improvement of a factor of 0.72. The resolution in th e regime between conventional confocal and conventional synthetic aperture is explored by computer simulation. Also, experimental results are given. ( C) 1999 Optical Society of America [S0740-3232(99)00412-3].