The radiographic image is the bidimensional projection of a tridimensional volume. Interpretation of such an image is sometimes uneasy as we cannot determine ot which level the shadows are located. To dissociate the superimposed shadows, the radiologist may rely on different techniques including fluoroscopy, profile view, radiosteoroscopy, conventional tomography, transverse axial tomography or...

laser scanning, facial morphology, stereophotogrammetry, three dimensional imaging. Abstract The surface facial imagings have many applications in medical fields. The recent past has seen great advances in three dimensional imaging which include laser scanning or stereophotogrammetry. Here, we reviewed various systems with reference to image acquisition, advantages and disadvantages. Examples o...

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Tomographic diffractive microscopy is a three-dimensional imaging technique that reconstructs the permittivity map of the probed sample from its scattered field, measured both in phase and in amplitude. Here, we detail how polarization-resolved measurements permit us to significantly improve the accuracy and the resolution of the reconstructions, compared to the conventional scalar treatments u...

We propose a novel test object for ultrasound imaging. The test object, or phantom, is manufactured using thin film techniques allowing precise placement of 'digital scatterers' which can produce sophisticated test targets, similar to those that are widely used in imaging science to evaluate displays, printers and electronic imaging systems. These test objects can be used in conjunction with st...

Imaging is one of the most important tools for orthodontists to evaluate and record size and form of craniofacial structures. Orthodontists routinely use 2-dimensional (2D) static imaging techniques, but deepness of structures cannot be obtained and localized with 2D imaging. Three-dimensional (3D) imaging has been developed in the early of 1990's and has gained a precious place in dentistry, e...

Recent years have witnessed the introduction of spatiotemporal spectroscopy for the characterization of catalysts at work at previously unattainable resolution and sensitivity. They have revealed that heterogeneous catalysts are more heterogeneous than often expected. Dynamic changes in the nature of active sites, such as their distribution and accessibility, occur both between and within parti...

BACKGROUND Pre- and postoperative imaging is important and essential for evaluation of the results of rhinoplasty surgery. Two-dimensional photographs are used routinely for this purpose, but have several disadvantages as opposed to three-dimensional imaging techniques, such as stereophotogrammetry. This study is the first to describe the measurement of rhinoplasty results using stereophotogram...

We report the use of axicons to achieve broadband "focus-free" imaging in transmission and reflection at terahertz wavelengths. We demonstrate how the use of a broadband terahertz source improves the resolution of the imaging system, and how by using time-of-flight data the axial position and dimension of objects within the large depth of field of the axicon (160 mm) could be determined.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows noninvasive and three-dimensional visualization of whole organisms over time, and, therefore, would be ideally suited to monitor cell trafficking in vivo. Until now, systemically injected cells had been difficult to visualize by MRI because of relatively inefficient labeling methods. We developed a novel, biocompatible, and physiologically inert nanoparti...