Optical-path-length-shifting color digital holography

We propose an in-line color digital holography that can suppress a 0th-order diffraction image and a conjugate image. This technique reconstructs the image of an object from two holograms that are formed at two different distances from the object for each primary color. We numerically simulated the proposed technique and confirmed that it enabled the reconstruction of higher-quality images of an object than the Fresnel transform alone, which is the simplest reconstruction algorithm in digital holography. The effectiveness of the proposed technique was also quantitatively shown by evaluating the reconstructed images using root-mean-square errors. Thus, it was confirmed that the proposed technique was capable of recording and reconstructing both three-dimensional information and color information of an object.     

Cerebral blood flow estimation from perfusion-weighted MRI using FT-based MMSE filtering method

INTRODUCTION: Perfusion-weighted MRI can be used for estimating blood flow parameters using bolus tracking technique based on dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI. In order to extract flow parameters, several deconvolution techniques have been proposed, of which the singular value decomposition (SVD) and Fourier transform (FT)-based techniques are more popular and widely used. In this work, an FT-based method has been proposed that involves derivation of an optimal shaped filter (defined as a filter function) estimated using minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) technique in the frequency domain. The proposed technique has been compared with the well-established SVD technique using simulation experiments. SIMULATION METHODS: Simulation was performed in multiple steps. An arterial input function (AIF) was first defined based on a certain blood flow value. The T2* signal change was then derived from this AIF, and noise was added to the signal. Then, a unique and optimal shaped filter function Phi(f) was derived in order to obtain the best estimate of scaled residue function. One way is by minimizing the mean-squared error between the noiseless and noisy scaled residue function, i.e., using an MMSE method. The effect of low and moderate noise and distorted AIF on cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimates was obtained by using FT-based MMSE method. Results were compared with the SVD technique. In this work, SVD technique was assumed to be the standard reference deconvolution technique. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: For low-noise condition, the FT-based technique was more stable than the SVD technique, while for moderate noise, both techniques consistently underestimated CBF. SVD technique was found to be more stable in presence of AIF distortions. However, SVD technique was found to be unstable due to AIF delay compared to the FT-based MMSE method. The shaped filter function was found to be sensitive to effect of AIF distortions.     

电子显微镜散斑照相技术

提出了一种新颖的人工亚微米/纳米散斑制作技术.采用超声波分散亚微米/纳米颗粒,然后利用范德华力、静电力和毛细力将其吸附在试件表面.在特定分辨率的扫描电镜下,物体表面的亚微米/纳米颗粒可以看作是亚微米/纳米散斑.此外,发展了一种测量面内亚微米/纳米级变形的电子显微镜散斑照相技术.详细介绍了人工制作亚微米/纳米散斑和电子显微镜散斑照相技术,实验验证了技术的可行性     

On-Line Measurement of Mass Flow of Pneumatically Conveyed Solids

CSIRO has developed an ultrasonic attenuation and transit time technique and a microwave transmission technique for on-line determination of the mass flow of pneumatically conveyed solids. In a comparative plant trial on a single burner line at Bayswater power station, the ultrasonic technique determined the coal density and velocity with rms errors of 3.9 and 5.9% relative respectively; the microwave technique successfully determined the coal density with an rms error of 6.2% relative, but was unable to accurately determine solids flow velocity at the low coal densities typical of the trial. In a plant trial at a direct smelter, the microwave technique successfully determined the mass flow of pneumatically conveyed iron ore fines feeding the smelter with an rms error of 10.2% relative.     

Parallel phase-shifting dual-illumination phase unwrapping

We propose a single-shot phase unwrapping technique using a single wavelength and parallel phase-shifting interferometry. In the proposed technique, an object is illuminated by two laser beams, which are emitted from the same laser, and have different illumination angles and polarizations. Two types of object waves generated by the two beams are separately and simultaneously recorded by a polarization-imaging camera. In the path of the reference wave, an array of phase retarders is placed to implement the parallel phase-shifting technique. A highly accurate three-dimensional shape is reconstructed from a single hologram. We numerically simulated the proposed technique and conducted a preliminary experiment to verify its effectiveness. It was confirmed that millimeter-order height, which was several thousand times the wavelength of the laser, can be reconstructed by the proposed technique without wrapping.     

Optical evaluation of ingot fixity in semiconductor wafer slicing

The fixity of an ingot may greatly affect the quality of wafers produced during a wire saw process and improved mechanical clamping is a means for improving ingot fixity. Here, an optical technique that is based on laser beam deflection is described. The technique was demonstrated on ingot assemblies subjected to impulse loads within a prescribed range using an original and improved clamping system. The technique revealed that the ingot assembly had lower degrees of mean displacement and standard displacement deviation under the improved clamping system. The data on warp obtained from the actual production of wafers corroborates this finding. The technique described is an effective method of quantitatively evaluating the fixity of ingots in a wafer wire saw process.     

The reliability of optical fiber-TWRC technique in liquids thermal diffusivity measurement

The conventional thermal-wave resonator cavity (TWRC) technique was modified by using an optical fiber as both to transmit light beam and to produce thermal wave. This technique also known shortly as OF-TWRC was used to measure liquid thermal diffusivity in a thermally thick condition. The stability of the pyroelectric signal amplitude was good over long time duration. The thermal diffusivity values of various liquids obtained by this technique are in agreement with those of literature indicating this technique is reliable as compared to the conventional TWRC technique.     

Study on an automatic processing technique of the circle interference fringe for fine interferometry

The fringe center method (FCM) is an important digital processing technique of fringe patterns analysis for interferometry. In this paper, an improved automatic processing technique based on FCM was presented, which correlated the processing link and the looped feature of the circle fringe pattern. It also integrated several techniques including noise removal, the fringe thinning, the fringe patching, assignment of the fringe orders and wavefront reconstruction and can be executed orderly and automatically. Based on the new the algorithms of the fringe patching and assignment of the fringe orders, the fringe feature information was extracted automatically and the interference wavefront was reconstructed by Zernike polynomial fitting method. With the automatic processing technique, the circle interference fringe of the fine polished aluminum disks surface captured by the Twyman-Green interferometer was processed, and the surface profile and the parameters of the disk were obtained automatically. The experiments show that the improved automatic processing technique was more accurate and fast in measurement than the conventional one. It was convenient to use it in in-situ industry inspection.     

光折变晶体多重全息存储衍射效率均匀性的研究

推导出了全息多重存储时间递减曝光法各幅图象写入时间的解析表达式,研究了时间递减法和循环曝光法单次曝光时间、总曝光时间以及循环次数随存储图象的幅数之间的变化关系,结果表明时间递减法不但对记录系统的要求较低,而且也可获得相当均匀的衍射效率.     

时间分辨ESR与电子自旋极化研究

介绍了近年发展起来的时间分辨TRESR技术，以3个实例介绍了用TRESR研究光解自由基的电子自旋极化的状况，指出研究自旋极化可以得到关于分子激发态和自由基反应动力学等丰富的多方面信息，TRESR技术是研究光与分子相互作用的一种重要手段。     

基于稳态辐射传输方程的小动物尺寸组织体扩散光学层析法

在Newton-Raphson逆模型框架下,发展了基于稳态辐射传输方程光子输运正模型和代数重建技术的扩散光学层析图像重建算法,并针对小尺寸组织体内部吸收和散射系数同时重建情况下的标准代数重建技术算法进行了改进,数值结果表明改进后的代数重建技术算法重建图像效果优于标准代数重建技术算法.     

Real-time holographic interferometry using photorefractive sillenite crystals with phase-stepping technique

This work presents a holographic interferometer that uses the photorefractive sillenite crystals in diffusive regimen whose configuration exhibits diffraction anisotropy for real-time holographic interferometry. The writing–reading process of holographic interferogram was done in real-time, connected with an interferogram-analysis method that uses the phase-stepping technique for quantitative measurement of changes on an object. The holographic interferograms from the analyzed surface were captured and they were used to calculate the phase map with four-frame technique. The unwrapping process used was the cellular-automata technique. We obtained quantitative results for some applications: measurements of micro-rotation of surfaces, punctual micro-displacements on an aluminum plate, stress on a dog's jaw, among others; adding new promising applications possibilities for basic research, dentistry and technological areas.     

Fundamental Study on Near-Axis Scattered Light and Its Application to Optical Computed Tomography

To find a basic principle of optical computed tomography (optical CT), a fundamental study was conducted on the use of scattered light in diffuse random media. We call the scattered light that propagates along the optical axis of the incident light beam near-axis scattered light (NASL). The use of NASL for the imaging through a diffuse medium was proposed and its basic characteristics were analyzed. The existence and measurability of NASL were confirmed in the simulation and measurement. To detect NASL efficiently, a technique called the scattering angle differential technique was developed. In CT imaging with a model phantom, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed technique were verified. We found that this technique alone was not sufficient to obtain the cross sectional image of an animal body, therefore a technique called the contact technique was devised to overcome the problems of reflection and refraction at the air-tissue interface. Finally, a prototype system was developed which integrated all the proposed techniques. With this system, we could obtain the CT images of a living mouse, in which the blood-rich organs such as liver and kidneys were clearly recognizable.     

Skin-scanning technique for superficial blood flow imaging using a high-frequency ultrasound system

In this paper we propose a skin-scanning technique with a high-frequency ultrasound imaging system that enables images to be acquired at the fixed depth of field of a single-element focused transducer along the profile of an object contour by simultaneously moving the transducer in the horizontal and vertical directions. The scanning path, which closely parallels the profile of the object contour, was determined from the intensity difference between an object and the background in a brightness-mode image. The transducer moved along the profile of the object contour while maintaining a constant distance interval between adjacent pairs of ultrasonic signals in the horizontal direction. The image was then reconstructed by applying an alignment process to eliminate the distortion. The performance of skin-scanning technique was verified in vitro experiment using an arc-shaped phantom and the results showed a percentage error of 0.55% for the volumetric blood flow estimates. Moreover, in vivo experiment on a subcutaneous tumor was also performed. The results indicated that the proposed technique can accurately estimate the blood flow information along the profile of the object contour and avoid distortion of the morphology of blood vessels. The skin-scanning technique has potential for assessing superficial blood flows and prognoses in the oncology and dermatology fields.     

Magnetostriction of a single crystal of nickel observed with an X-ray four-circle goniometer

We proposed a technique to observe magnetostrictive coefficients of a single crystal specimen with X-ray diffraction. An angle between a direction of crystallographic orientation and a direction of magnetic field could be estimated with two kinds of diffraction peaks which were found with an X-ray four-circle goniometer. The magnetostriction was measured by a shift of Bragg angle. This technique was suitable for a case to observe the magnetostrictive coefficient which varied as a function of the magnetic field direction. We applied the technique to a single crystal specimen of nickel and showed dependences of the magnetostriction on the magnetic field strength and its direction around an axis of easy magnetization at room temperature.     

基于RANSAC方法的星表自动匹配方法

本文把星表匹配问题转化成计算机视觉中的对应点匹配问题,接着使用二维Delaunay三角化方法对星表进行三角化,然后用RANSAC方法对星表的自动匹配问题进行了研究。研究结果表明,我们的方法能够快速有效地完成星表匹配。在总共960个样本中,除了两幅不符合匹配的星表之外,全部获得了正确的匹配结果。     

Advances in digital holographic micro-PTV for analyzing microscale flows

The accurate three-dimensional (3D) velocity field measurement technique has been receiving large attention in the study of microfluidics. DHM-PTV technique was developed by combining the digital holographic microscopy and particle tracking velocimetry technique. DHM-PTV is an ideal method for measuring three-component-three-dimensional (3C-3D) velocity field in a microscale flow with a fairly good spatial resolution. The advances in the DHM-PTV technique enable the measurement of various microscale flows, such as transport of red blood cells in a microtube and 3D flows in microfluidic devices. DHM-PTV is also applied in studying the motile behavior of swimming microorganisms. DHM-PTV would play an important role in ascertaining the undiscovered basic physics in various microscale and biofluid flow phenomena. In the current study, the basic principle of the DHM-PTV technique and its typical applications to microscale flows are introduced and discussed.     

Three-dimensional display using computer-generated hologram based on virtual optics

The technique of using computer-generated hologram (CGH) for 2-D and 3-D display based on virtual optics was researched widely. A new way, modified peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) method was used to assess 3-D image quality reconstructed by CGH, and an iterative arithmetic was proposed to synthesize CGH perfectly. Furthermore, in the paper a novel way to encrypt 3-D information was proposed. Simulation experiments showed that CGH was an effective encryption technique, and Modified PSNR was a proper definite quantity analysis method for 3-D imaging.     

CCD摄像机替代高速摄影机应用研究

比较、分析了CCD技术和摄影技术在靶场中的应用与发展现状,论述了CCD替代高速摄影机的实施方案。通过结果分析,CCD成像质量和作用距离均优于胶片,测量精度与摄影相当。试验表明该技术可行,在靶场将有着广泛的应用前景。     

Design of optimal configuration for generating A0 Lamb mode in a composite plate using piezoceramic transducers

This work concerned a technique for a health monitoring system based on the generation and sensing of Lamb waves in composite structures by thin surface-bonded piezoceramic transducers. The objective was to develop transducers that are adapted for the damage detection in orthotropic composites. The key problem with the investigated Lamb waves was to select a mode to be sensitive to the damage. A hybrid modeling technique was therefore used to conceive transducers that were adapted to achieve such a feature. This modeling technique enabled studying the influence of the transducer characteristics on the Lamb waves propagating in orthotropic plates. It was demonstrated that a Lamb mode could be generated dominantly to other modes by using a multi-element transducer. The effectiveness of this technique was successfully verified experimentally on composite plates. It was shown that the dominant Lamb mode, obtained by use of dual-element transducers, was an appropriate mode for successfully detecting a damage in composites.