Conventional solar adaptive optics uses one deformable mirror (DM) and one guide star for wave-front sensing, which seriously limits high-resolution imaging over a large field of view (FOV). Recent progress toward multiconjugate adaptive optics indicates that atmosphere turbulence induced wave-front distortion at different altitudes can be reconstructed by using multiple guide stars. To maximiz...

Wide field of view (FOV) and high resolution are two desirable properties in many vision-based applications such as tele-conferencing, surveillance, and robot navigation. In some applications such as 3 0 reconstruction and rendering, it is also desired that all viewing directions share a single viewpoint, the entire FOV be imaged simultaneously, in real-time, and the depth offield be large. In ...

Leaf vein density (LVD) has garnered considerable attention of late, with numerous studies linking it to the physiology, ecology, and evolution of land plants. Despite this increased attention, little consideration has been given to the effects of measurement methods on estimation of LVD. Here, we focus on the relationship between measurement methods and estimates of LVD. We examine the depende...

Illusions of self-movement (vection) can be used in virtual reality (VR) and other applications to give users the embodied sensation that they are moving when physical movement is unfeasible or too costly. Whereas a large body of vection literature studied how various parameters of the presented visual stimulus affect vection, little is known how different display types might affect vection. As...

Under single scattering conditions, water droplets clouds do not depolarize the backscattered light. However, backscattered light from multiple scattering will be depolarized. The level of depolarization is a function of the droplets size, the cloud extinction coefficient value and profile; it has also an important dependency on the lidar field-of-view (FOV). The use of depolarization informati...

Introduction: In recent years, non-Cartesian k-space trajectories such as radials and spirals have gained increased attention owing to mild appearance of artifacts from flow, chemical shift and undersampling, increased efficiency and intrinsic self-navigating properties. Remaining challenges of imaging with non-Cartesian trajectories include the lack of practical methods to optimize their perfo...

Two-dimensional spatially-selective RF (2DRF) excitation pulses were developed for single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI) with reduced field of view (FOV) in the phase-encoding direction. The decreased number of k-space lines significantly shortens the length of the EPI echo train. Thus, both gradient-echo and spin-echo 2DRF-EPI images of the human brain at 2.0 T exhibit markedly reduced suscept...

Introduction: Radiological assessment of neurovascular disease processes often requires multiple contrast-enhanced and non-contrast enhanced exams over a large FOV. We define a comprehensive neurovascular exam (CNVE) as the high resolution imaging of four major vessel groups: the aortic arch and great vessel origins, the carotid artery bifurcations and vertebral-basilar system, the intracranial...

Studies of the photometric variability astronomical sources from ground-based telescopes must overcome atmospheric extinction effects. Differential photometry by reference to an ensemble stars which closely match target in terms magnitude and colour can mitigate these This Paper describes design, implementation, operation a novel algorithm – The Locus Algorithm enables optimised differential ph...

We introduced the concept of C-space entropy recently in [1–3] as a measure of knowledge of C-space for sensor-based path planning and exploration for general robot-sensor systems. The robot plans the next sensing action to maximally reduce the expected C-space entropy, also called the maximal expected entropy reduction, or MER criterion. The expected C-space entropy computation, however, made ...