This paper considers Scintimammography (SM) imaging using two different image acquisition/formation methods: Low Energy High Resolution (LEHR) collimator and a Modified Uniformly Redundant Array (MURA) coded aperture (CA) systems. Using Monte Carlo simulation, the effectiveness and performance of both systems were evaluated by quantitative comparison of lesion contrast and Full-Width-Half-Maxim...

Topological spin textures can serve as non-volatile information carriers. Here we study the current-induced dynamics of an isolated magnetic skyrmion on a nanoscale square-grid pinning pattern formed by orthogonal defect lines with reduced anisotropy. The square grid be pixelated quantized size grid. We demonstrate that position, size, and shape are electrically configurable. center is to may s...

We introduce a novel video-rate hyperspectral imager with high spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions. Our key hypothesis is that profiles of pixels within each super-pixel tend to be similar. Hence, scene-adaptive spatial sampling scene, guided by its segmented image, capable obtaining high-quality reconstructions. To achieve this, we acquire an RGB image the compute super-pixels, from whi...

The heat balance method is developed to optimize cooling modes of large-sized optics in a special cryogenic-vacuum system by considering complicated transfer the minimize thermal deformations. Keywords: radiative transfer, conductive balance, thermostat, collimator.

BACKGROUND Post-therapy SPECT/CT imaging of 90Y microspheres delivered to hepatic malignancies is difficult, owing to the continuous, high-energy Bremsstrahlung spectrum emitted by 90Y. This study aimed to evaluate the utility of a commercially available software package (HybridRecon, Hermes Medical Solutions AB) which incorporates full Monte Carlo collimator modelling. Analysis of image qualit...

Proposed and demonstrated is a minimally invasive optical beam profiler using a non-pixelated liquid crystal spatial light modulator. The profiler features high detection sensitivity in the visible band, high 50 lines/mm spatial resolution, beam observation zone 100 % fill factor and magnification flexibility, and video rate operations. Applications for this beam profiler includes plug and test...

Optical lithography has enabled the printing of progressively smaller circuit patterns over the years. However, as the feature size shrinks, the lithographic process variation becomes more pronounced. Source-mask optimization (SMO) is a current technology allowing a co-design of the source and the mask for higher resolution imaging. In this paper, we develop a pixelated SMO using inverse imagin...

In the two space dimensions of screens in optical systems, rotations, gyrations, and fractional Fourier transformations form the Fourier subgroup of the symplectic group of linear canonical transformations: U(2)F⊂Sp(4,R). Here, we study the action of this Fourier group on pixelated images within generic rectangular Nx×Ny screens; its elements here compose properly and act unitarily, i.e., witho...

We investigate the influence of the finite spatial resolution of a typical 4f pulse-shaping setup in a single- and double-pass configuration on the shaped waveforms. Specifically, we calculate and measure the space-frequency distribution at the focal plane of a lens following the shaping setup and show that steep amplitude or phase jumps, as they appear with pixelated spatial light modulators, ...