Evaluation of molar dental restorations on enamel is performed using optical coherence tomography (OCT) with 10 microm resolution. Images of approximately 50 microm failure gaps in the restorations are demonstrated and the OCT images are compared with x-ray and optical microscopy pictures. The results demonstrate the potential of the technique for clinical evaluation of dental restorations.

We present a novel Bayesian method for pattern recognition in images affected by unknown optical degradations and additive noise. The method is based on a multiscale/multiorientation subband decomposition of both the matched filter (original object) and the degraded images. Using this image representation within the Bayesian framework, it is possible to make a coarse estimation of the unknown O...

Optical flow is usually computed only on the basis of intensity information of images. Therefore, if we use color information in addition to the intensity, it is expected that more accurate optical flow can be computed. However, this intuition will be correct only when the following conditions are satisfied. First, the images should contain rich color variations. Moreover, it is also required t...

Near-field microscopy has been developed to characterize optical properties of materials below the diffraction limit. It consists of scanning a probe, which can be of atomic dimensions, a few nanometers above a material surface, and detecting electromagnetic interaction. The resulting near-field optical images are conventionally analyzed by means of Fourier based methods although these data are...

Optical Flow Methods for the Registration of Compressible Flow Images and Images Containing Large Voxel Displacements or Artifacts

Diabetic retinopathy lesion detection such as exudate in fundus image of retina can lead to early diagnosis of the disease. Retinal image includes dark areas such as main blood vessels and retinal tissue and also bright areas such as optic disk, optical fibers and lesions e.g. exudate. In this paper, a multistage algorithm for the detection of exudate in foreground is proposed. The algorithm se...

The effect of different parameters including: nano silica content, curing temperature, type of hardener, and flash-off time on mechanical and optical properties of polyurethane PU based clearcoat was investigated via standard Taguchi L9 method. Dispersion of nano silica in the resultant nanocomposites was explored by scanning electron microscopy SEM. SEM images showed a fine dispersion through ...

We present a multimodal optical microscope that incorporates six imaging modalities on one common platform. The imaging modalities include three staring modes, optical quadrature microscopy (OQM), differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, and epi-fluorescence microscopy, and three scanning modes, confocal reflectance microscopy (CRM), confocal fluorescence microscopy (CFM), and two-p...

In diffuse optical tomography (DOT), the discretization error in the numerical solutions of the forward and inverse problems results in error in the reconstructed optical images. In this first part of our work, we analyse the error in the reconstructed optical absorption images, resulting from the discretization of the forward and inverse problems. Our analysis identifies several factors which ...