Imaging model of optical sectioning of thick specimen

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Hua ◽  
Hongxia Xie
Author(s):  
K. Shibatomi ◽  
T. Yamanoto ◽  
H. Koike

In the observation of a thick specimen by means of a transmission electron microscope, the intensity of electrons passing through the objective lens aperture is greatly reduced. So that the image is almost invisible. In addition to this fact, it have been reported that a chromatic aberration causes the deterioration of the image contrast rather than that of the resolution. The scanning electron microscope is, however, capable of electrically amplifying the signal of the decreasing intensity, and also free from a chromatic aberration so that the deterioration of the image contrast due to the aberration can be prevented. The electrical improvement of the image quality can be carried out by using the fascionating features of the SEM, that is, the amplification of a weak in-put signal forming the image and the descriminating action of the heigh level signal of the background. This paper reports some of the experimental results about the thickness dependence of the observability and quality of the image in the case of the transmission SEM.


Author(s):  
H. Koike ◽  
T. Matsuo ◽  
K. Ueno ◽  
M. Suzuki

Since the identification of single atoms was achieved by Crewe et al, scanning transmission microscopy has been put into pratical use. Recently they applied this method to the quantitative mass analysis of DNA.As pointed out previously the chromatic aberration which decreases the image contrast and quality, does not affect a scanning transmission image as it does a conventional transmission electron microscope image. Thus, the STEM method is advantageous for thick specimen. Further this method employs a high sensitive photomultiplier tube which also functions as an image intensifier. This detection method is effective for the observation of living specimens or easily damaged specimens. In this respect the scanning transmission microscope with high accelerating voltage is necessary.Since Uyeda's experiments of crystalline materials, many workers have been discussed how thick specimens can be observed by CTEM. With biological specimens, R. Szirmae reported on the decrease in the image contrast of rabbit psoas muscle sections at various accelerating voltages and specimen thicknesses.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
Huajun Song ◽  
Rui Wang

Aimed at the two problems of color deviation and poor visibility of the underwater image, this paper proposes an underwater image enhancement method based on the multi-scale fusion and global stretching of dual-model (MFGS), which does not rely on the underwater optical imaging model. The proposed method consists of three stages: Compared with other color correction algorithms, white-balancing can effectively eliminate the undesirable color deviation caused by medium attenuation, so it is selected to correct the color deviation in the first stage. Then, aimed at the problem of the poor performance of the saliency weight map in the traditional fusion processing, this paper proposed an updated strategy of saliency weight coefficient combining contrast and spatial cues to achieve high-quality fusion. Finally, by analyzing the characteristics of the results of the above steps, it is found that the brightness and clarity need to be further improved. The global stretching of the full channel in the red, green, blue (RGB) model is applied to enhance the color contrast, and the selective stretching of the L channel in the Commission International Eclairage-Lab (CIE-Lab) model is implemented to achieve a better de-hazing effect. Quantitative and qualitative assessments on the underwater image enhancement benchmark dataset (UIEBD) show that the enhanced images of the proposed approach achieve significant and sufficient improvements in color and visibility.


Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Herbert Schneckenburger ◽  
Verena Richter

A short overview on 3D live cell imaging is given. Relevant samples are described and various problems and challenges—including 3D imaging by optical sectioning, light scattering and phototoxicity—are addressed. Furthermore, enhanced methods of wide-field or laser scanning microscopy together with some relevant examples and applications are summarized. In the future one may profit from a continuous increase in microscopic resolution, but also from molecular sensing techniques in the nanometer range using e.g., non-radiative energy transfer (FRET).


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Pyo Kim ◽  
Jonghoon Kim ◽  
Hyemin Jang ◽  
Jaeho Kim ◽  
Sung Hoon Kang ◽  
...  

AbstractPredicting amyloid positivity in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is crucial. In the present study, we predicted amyloid positivity with structural MRI using a radiomics approach. From MR images (including T1, T2 FLAIR, and DTI sequences) of 440 MCI patients, we extracted radiomics features composed of histogram and texture features. These features were used alone or in combination with baseline non-imaging predictors such as age, sex, and ApoE genotype to predict amyloid positivity. We used a regularized regression method for feature selection and prediction. The performance of the baseline non-imaging model was at a fair level (AUC = 0.71). Among single MR-sequence models, T1 and T2 FLAIR radiomics models also showed fair performances (AUC for test = 0.71–0.74, AUC for validation = 0.68–0.70) in predicting amyloid positivity. When T1 and T2 FLAIR radiomics features were combined, the AUC for test was 0.75 and AUC for validation was 0.72 (p vs. baseline model < 0.001). The model performed best when baseline features were combined with a T1 and T2 FLAIR radiomics model (AUC for test = 0.79, AUC for validation = 0.76), which was significantly better than those of the baseline model (p < 0.001) and the T1 + T2 FLAIR radiomics model (p < 0.001). In conclusion, radiomics features showed predictive value for amyloid positivity. It can be used in combination with other predictive features and possibly improve the prediction performance.


2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. B25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Chih Lin ◽  
Chau-Jern Cheng ◽  
Ting-Chung Poon

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