Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images have inaccurate CT numbers because of scattered photons. Thus, quantitative analysis of scattered photons that affect an electron density (ED) curve and calculated doses may be effective information to achieve CBCT-based radiation treatment planning. We quantitatively evaluated the effect of scattered photons on the accuracy of dose calculations from ...

In this paper, the performance of Local Binary Patterns method is evaluated in face recognition with long-wave infrared images. Long-wave infrared images are invariant to illumination conditions, but at the same time are affected by a fixed-pattern noise inherent to this technology. The fixed-pattern noise usually is compensated with a nonuniformity correction method. Here, the robustness of Lo...

Amplification of reticle linewidth variations in imaging is examined through direct measurements of the mask error factor (MEF), which typically is used to describe this undesirable effect. The error observed in the aerial image linewidth is decoupled from the error in the resulting resist profile linewidth with the introduction of two separate mask error factors, namely the aerial image MEFaer...

Introduction: The success of radiotherapy cancer treatment delivery depends on the accuracy of patient positioning for each treatment session. A number of kilovoltage x-ray volumetric imaging modalities with an additional source and detector have been developed to allow patient set-up verification based on the internal anatomy, but a significant portion of medical linacs are on...

Most full-field microscopes at synchrotrons exhibit a highly peaked illumination in the center of the field of view for stationary condenser and objective optics. This illumination pattern is typically reference-corrected by division with an image without the sample to correct for the uneven illumination. However, this correction does not rectify problems such as the poor signal-to-noise ratio ...