Abstract
Phase-contrast imaging methods exploit variations in an object's refractive index distribution to permit the visualization of subtle features that may have very similar optical absorption properties. Although phasecontrast is often viewed as being desirable in many biomedical applications, its relative influence on signal detectability when both absorption- and phase-contrast are present remains relatively unexplored. In this work, we investigate the ideal Bayesian observer signal-to-noise ratio in phase-contrast imaging for a signal-known-exactly/background-known exactly detection task involving a weak signal. We demonstrate that this signal detectability measure can be decomposed into three contributions that have distinct interpretations associated with the imaging physics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2648-2659 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition