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Lorenzo Crocco1, Michele D'Urso, Tommaso Isernia

  • 1Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Diocleziano 328, 80124 Napoli, Italy. crocco.l@irea.cnr.it

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
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