Fringe projection profilometry with nonparallel illumination: a least-squares approach

Under a nonparallel illumination condition, fringe patterns projected on an object have unequal fringe spacing that would introduce a nonlinear carrier phase component. This Letter describes a nonlinear carrier removal technique based on a least-squares approach. In contrast with conventional methods, the proposed algorithm would not magnify phase measurement uncertainty, nor does it require direct estimation of system geometrical parameters. The theoretical expression of the carrier phase function on the reference is derived and expanded in a power series. The unknown coefficients in the series are determined by a least-squares method. By subtracting the calculated carrier phase function from the unwrapped phase map, the phase distribution of the object profile is obtained.     

A spatial domain constraint iterative phase retrieval method for the propagation based X ray phase contrast imaging

Based on the propagation X ray phase contrast imaging theory, a spatial domain constraint iterative phase retrieval method is described in detail. This algorithm limits the object spatial domain according to the actual sample size firstly, and modify the image plane data with the actual test data, then the iteration can be terminated until iteration precision or the number of iterations meet the preset requirements. Finally the numerical simulation is made to evaluate the rapid phase retrieval algorithm performance, and a real column fiber material experiment is carried out using a micro focus X ray phase contrast imaging experiment platform, the phase distribution image of the column fiber is calculated out by this algorithm. The results show that this phase retrieval algorithm is effective, and the method has a potential stability and accuracy for X ray phase contrast imaging technology.     

Fringe contrast-based 3D profilometry using fringe projection

Quality-guided algorithm is a widely used method in phase unwrapping. This paper shows an accurate quality map based on fringe contrast for 3D shape measurement. Phase-shifted fringe patterns are projected onto an object surface by a programmable liquid crystal projector and recorded by a CCD camera. A wrapped phase map and a fringe contrast map are extracted from the deformed fringe patterns by the phase-shifting technique. Guided by the contrast map, the quality-guided unwrapping algorithm minimizes unwanted shadow and non-uniform surface reflectance effects and is able to retrieve a correct surface profile. Validity of the proposed method is tested on a fish model and a cutting tool specimen.     

Full field deformation measurement of centimeter sized objects using optical phase retrieval

Most papers in the field of optical phase retrieval either consider only the intensity (or amplitude) profile of the object under inspection (or scatterer location in the X-ray version), or a uniform tilt/rotation of the object beam. However, phase retrieval is able to recover the phase profile of the object (beam) as well, which theoretically makes the observable interference of phase retrieved object waves possible. In this paper we demonstrate this principle experimentally on centimeter sized deformable reflective objects (as large as 40 mm by 40 mm) and corresponding simulations are also presented. When the CCD camera is moved along the optical axis in the Fresnel region, the interference fringes of the displacement field have low contrast. On the other hand, when an imaging setup is built, and the camera moves near the image plane, high fringe contrast can be obtained. These fringes however suffer from some phase error. In our work the iterative modulus projection algorithm was used as a simply implementable phase retrieval method.     

A new pixel matching method using the entire modulation of the measured object in online PMP

A method using entire modulation information of the measured object itself for pixel matching is proposed in online phase measuring profilometry (PMP). Only one fixed sinusoidal grating is projected onto the moving measured object and then five deformed patterns are captured by the imaging system (CCD). Because the contrast of the sinusoidal grating is a constant, the modulation distribution of each deformed pattern reflecting the gray of the measured region can be extracted. The entire modulation of the object cut from one of them is regarded as a template, and then the distance of the measured object's movement between each two adjacent deformed pattern can be calculated by the correlation operation so that we can cut the corresponding parts containing the measured object's information from five deformed patterns. Then the discrete phase can be calculated with Stoilov algorithm. By the phase unwrapping and the mapping algorithm, the object can be reconstructed exactly. A series of simulations and experiments confirm its feasibility and validity.     

硬X射线光栅微分干涉相衬成像两步相移算法的理论与实验研究

针对硬X射线光栅微分干涉相衬成像在实际应用中对低辐射剂量和快速获取图像的要求, 通过对实验系统的理论分析和参数优化设计, 采用了两步相移算法用于提取物体相位信息. 这种方法可以有效降低X射线对物体的辐射剂量, 大大提高恢复相位信息的速度, 为X射线光栅相衬成像在未来的医疗和工业中的应用奠定基础. 关键词： 光栅干涉 X射线相衬成像 两步相移算法     

Phase-unwrapping algorithm in the presence of discontinuities using a system with crossed grating

A new phase-unwrapping algorithm for the phase map containing discontinuities by the use of a system with crossed grating is described in this paper. A crossed grating is projected onto the object in the usual way, the deformed grating image acquired is Fourier transformed and the frequency spectra for the individual gratings are separated. Using both phase distributions which have different sensitivities, the correct phase values in the presence of discontinuities, especially those caused by the object with height steps, can be obtained. This algorithm is fast and accurate. The results of the measurement of a three-dimensional object with height steps are presented.     

光栅成像的锥束相位CT重建算法

X射线相位衬度成像对弱吸收物质有着独有的高密度分辨率,在医学、生物学、材料学等领域显示出良好的应用前景.但是其中的干涉成像法、衍射增强成像法和同轴成像法具有一定局限性,难以被广泛应用.光栅成像克服了以往相位衬度成像的缺陷,也使相位衬度成像向锥束成像发展成为可能.本文致力于锥束相位X射线计算机断层摄影术(CT)重建算法的研究,根据基于光栅的锥束相位成像的特点,利用吸收CT中FDK (Feldkamp-Davis-Kress)重建算法的思想,发展出适用于锥束相位成像的CT重建方法.该方法为滤波反投影类型,以相位一阶导数像为投影值,直接重建物体的相位项.通过仿真验证了算法的正确性.     

复物体的恢复

为了恢复一个复值物函数,本文提出了利用透镜后1f距离,2f距离及3f距离处的强度信息来恢复物函数的振幅分布和位相分布.计算表明,此算法具有广泛的实用性;并能给出很好的收敛结果.     

Variable Phasenkontrast-Anordnungen zur Messung der absoluten Lichtphase

Normally, in phase contrast microscopy, a non-periodic object in the object plane is to be studied, and the phase strip in the pupil plane has to be known. But in these new phase measuring methodes, a known periodic object (a phase grating, particularly) in the object plane produces adiscrete spectre in the pupil plane the zeroth and higher orders of which can easily be influenced independently. This is done by the unknown phase object acting as the phase strip in the pupil plane. The influence of the strip on the final image is compensated by adjusting a second, variable, phase strip, or by superimposing a variable amount of dark-field image to give zero contrast in the final image. Phase and amplitude of the unknown object can then be calculated from the half-shadow setting parameters.     

Error evaluation for Zernike polynomials fitting based phase compensation of digital holographic microscopy

Combining the experimental research with the simulation calculation, the error evaluation for Zernike polynomials fitting (ZPF) based phase compensation of digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is performed. The obtained results show that the reconstructed phase with high precision can be obtained by ZPF phase compensation algorithm. Moreover, the phase error for ZPF based phase compensation algorithm increases with both the variation of object height and object transverse area, the larger variation of object height, the larger of phase error, and the larger of object transverse area, the faster increase of RMS phase error. To decrease the error of ZPF phase compensation algorithm, it is required to ensure one of the variations of object height and object transverse area to be a small value. Importantly, the proposed method supplies a useful tool for the error evaluation of phase compensation algorithm.     

级数相位去包裹方法

提出了一个简单的相位去包裹方法－－条纹的极数相位去包裹算法,将其用来恢复物体的真实相位。与传统的条纹相位去包裹方法相比较,该方法能够消除光载频、物体边缘、阴影和盲点的影响。理论分析和实验结果证明该方法适用于条纹空间相位测量方法解调的包裹相位。     

基于相位恢复和数字全息的音频水印

提出了一种在数字全息技术中引入相位恢复算法的音频水印方法.用水印图像经相位恢复处理形成虚拟物光波与参考光波干涉,得到高对比度的傅里叶变换全息图.利用量化算法和离散余弦变换把数字全息图嵌入音频信号中,在水印提取过程中不需要原始音频信号的参与,并且采用密钥加强了水印的安全性.数值计算实验表明:该算法对有损压缩、重采样、低通滤波、噪音干扰等常用音频信号攻击均具有很好的稳健性.     

基于压缩传感的纯相位物体相位恢复

传统的相位恢复算法通过双强度或者单强度测量的数据进行迭代运算以恢复丢失的相位信息, 它要求采样数据必须满足香农采样定理.当成像的分辨率较高时, 大量的测量数据势必会对数据采样设备提出更多的要求.因此, 为减少采样负担, 本文提出了一种基于压缩传感的相位恢复算法, 通过在傅里叶面的少量单强度测量数据, 应用改进的混合输入输出算法来恢复纯相位物体的相位分布.在采样数据远小于采样定理所需的条件时, 该算法仍能精确地恢复相位分布具有分块均匀特征的纯相位物体.数值仿真实验表明该算法具有良好的收敛性能. 关键词： 相位恢复 压缩传感     

Study of the algorithm in the phase retrieval using the logarithmic Hilbert transform

The phase retrieval from a modulus of the scattered wave field at the Fourier transform plane of an object is considered in this paper by using the logarithmic Hilbert transform. When the phase is evaluated by using the logarithmic Hilbert transform from the modulus at the Fourier transform plane of the object with the direct component (for example, the phase object), the distortion appears in the reconstructed object obtained from an inverse Fourier transform of the complex wave consisting of the evaluated phase and the modulus. Here, the cause for the appearance of the distortion is made clear and a simple algorithm is presented to reduce the distortion of the reconstructed object.     

Realization of Absolute‐Phase Unwrapping and Speckle Suppression in Laser Digital Holography

In this paper, an absolute‐phase unwrapping and speckle suppression approach to reconstruct a three‐dimensional (3‐D) image of an object with laser digital holography is described. This method offers three advantages to enhance the performance of the phase reconstruction technique. First, both speckle suppression and phase unwrapping are processed in the complex amplitude domain rather than in the single phase or amplitude domain. With this approach, the phase details of the object are better preserved upon phase reconstruction. Second, the proposed algorithm requires no threshold determination and thus achieves self‐adaptive speckle suppression and robust phase unwrapping, in contrast to other methods. Finally, an improved dual‐domain image denoising method is applied to further remove speckle‐remnant‐induced phase distortion. Ideal 3‐D phase reconstruction results are obtained both theoretically and experimentally for the first time.     

Enhanced wavefront reconstruction by random phase modulation with a phase diffuser

A phase retrieval technique for enhanced wavefront reconstruction using random phase modulation and a phase diffuser is proposed. The speckle field generated is sampled at multiple axially displaced planes and the speckle patterns are used in an iterative algorithm based on the optical wave propagation in free space. The presentation of this technique is carried out using two setups. In the first setup, a diffuser plate is placed at the image plane of a metallic test object. The benefit of randomizing the phase of the object wave is the enhanced intensity recording due to high dynamic range of the diffusely scattered beam. The use of demagnification optics will also allow the investigations of relatively large objects. In the second setup, a transparent object is illuminated using a wavefront with random phase and constant amplitude by positioning the phase diffuser close to the object. The benefit of phase-only modulation is the increased resolution of the phase structures of the transparent test objects.     

相位锁定循环投影技术及其应用

由一组规则栅线投影到物体表面的变形光栅,采用相位锁定循环解调算法解调出含有物体表面高度信息的相位.该技术的最大优势是不需传统的相位去包裹.利用该算法对二维栅线图扫描确定的相位.本文给出了一个典型试件的实验结果和分析.     

Compact Zernike phase contrast x-ray microscopy using a single-element optic

We demonstrate Zernike phase contrast in a compact soft x-ray microscope using a single-element optic. The optic is a combined imaging zone plate and a Zernike phase plate and does not require any additional alignment or components. Contrast is increased and inversed in an image of a test object using the Zernike zone plate. This type of optic may be implemented into any existing x-ray microscope where phase contrast is of interest.     

Parallel two-step phase-shifting microscopic interferometry based on a cube beamsplitter

Parallel two-step phase-shifting interferometry for microscopy is presented, and the recording condition for generalized two-step phase-shifting interferometry is discussed. A 45° tilted cube beamsplitter enables to replicate the orthogonally linear polarized object and reference waves into two parallel beams, respectively. As a consequence, two interferograms with quadrature phase shift are obtained along the two beams, and phase reconstructed with an improved algorithm. To reconstruct the phase distribution from the two-step phase-shifting interferograms, a certain recording condition should be satisfied. However, the recording condition has not ever been discussed before. In this paper, the recording condition for the two-step phase-shifting interferometry is derived and that is: the intensity of reference wave should be no less than two times object wave intensity.