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Riccardo Borghi1

  • 1Dipartimento di Elettronica Applicata, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, Rome, Italy. borghi@uniroma3.it

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
|December 25, 2007
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