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Published on: February 8, 2014
Spherical shell structure of distribution of images reconstructed by diffractive imaging
Hiroyuki Shioya1, Yosuke Maehara, Kazutoshi Gohara
1Division of Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto, Muroran 050-8585, Japan. shioya@csse.muroran-it.ac.jp
Abstract:
Image reconstruction from Fourier intensity through phase retrieval was investigated when the intensity was contaminated with Poisson noise. Although different initial conditions and/or the instability of the iterative phase retrieval process led to different reconstructed images, we found that the distribution of the resulting images in both the object and Fourier spaces formed spherical shell structures. Averaging of the images over the distribution corresponds to the position of the image at the sphere center.
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