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Integrated Photoacoustic Ophthalmoscopy and Spectral-domain Optical Coherence Tomography

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Semi-blind spectral deconvolution with adaptive Tikhonov regularization.

Luxin Yan¹, Hai Liu, Sheng Zhong

¹National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing, Institute for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Applied Spectroscopy

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This study introduces a semi-blind deconvolution method to enhance spectral resolution. It accurately estimates unknown instrumental responses, improving spectral data quality without prior knowledge of the point spread function (PSF).

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Area of Science:

Spectroscopy
Signal Processing
Analytical Chemistry

Background:

Deconvolution is crucial for improving spectral resolution but is ill-posed, especially with unknown point spread functions (PSFs).
Existing non-blind methods require exact PSF knowledge, while blind deconvolution struggles with noise and simultaneous estimation challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel semi-blind deconvolution method for enhanced spectral resolution.
To address the challenge of unknown point spread functions (PSFs) in spectral data analysis.

Main Methods:

A semi-blind deconvolution approach modeling the PSF as a parametric function using instrumental response characteristics.
Construction of an energy functional with Tikhonov regularization for both the spectrum and the parametric PSF.
Development of an adaptive weighting term based on spectral data derivatives to adjust regularization.

Main Results:

The method successfully estimates both the spectrum and PSF parameters by minimizing the energy functional.
Comparative analyses on simulated and experimental infrared spectra demonstrate the method's effectiveness against other deconvolution techniques.

Conclusions:

The proposed semi-blind deconvolution method offers a robust solution for improving spectral resolution when the PSF is unknown.
This approach provides a practical alternative for spectral data processing, particularly in noisy conditions and with complex instrumental responses.