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Huan Xie1, Ya Yan Lu

  • 1Joint Advanced Research Center of University of Science and Technology of China and City University of Hong Kong, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
|May 29, 2010
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