BACKGROUND PET image reconstruction methods include modeling of resolution degrading phenomena, often referred to as point-spread function (PSF) reconstruction. The aim of this study was to develop a clinically relevant phantom and characterize the reproducibility and accuracy of high-resolution PSF reconstructed images of small lesions, which is a prerequisite for using PET in the prediction a...

Context. Controlling shape measurement systematics in weak gravitational lensing. Aims. Quantifying the effect of systematic errors in modelling the Point Spread Function (PSF) on cosmological parameter measurements from cosmic shear. Methods. We explore the impact of PSF fitting errors on cosmic shear measurements using the concepts of complexity and sparsity. Complexity, introduced in a previ...

This paper addresses the problem of creating a Super-Resolution (SR) image from a set of Low Resolution (LR) images. SR image reconstruction can be viewed as a three-task process: registration or motion estimation, Point Spread Function (PSF) estimation and High Resolution (HR) image reconstruction. In the current work, we propose a new method based on the Bayesian estimation with a Gauss-Marko...

Membrane contactor using amine based absorbents is an efficient technology for CO2 separation from gaseous mixtures. A novel porous polysulfone (PSF) flat membrane was prepared via non-solvent phase inversion method. The PSF membrane was modified by adding polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) to the dope solution. The fabricated membrane was used in the serpentine flow field contactor module for CO2 abs...

In order to restore a degraded image, the first step is to identify the kind of degradation the image has suffered. Modeling the blurred image as the output of a two-dimensional (2D linear space-invariant (LSI) system, the identification problem is the estimation of the unknown point-spread function (PSF) of the LSI system. One approach to blur identification is to obtain the blur parameters (i...

Motion blur is a phenomenon which is corrupting images when, any motion occurs between the camera viewpoint and the captured scene during the acquisition. Rarely this can be described with a shift invariant operator although this is a common assumption in the literature. In a motion blurred image, the Point Spread Function (PSF) of each pixel is determined by the relative motion between the cam...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is common in stroke survivors. Lesion location may influence the risk of poststroke fatigue (PSF) but it is uncertain whether location has an impact on the prognosis of PSF. This study examined the association between PSF outcome and infarct location. METHODS The study sample comprised 435 Chinese patients with acute ischemic stroke admitted to the acute stroke unit of a un...

Several lines of evidence indicated that P cell-stimulating factor (PSF), a T lymphocyte-derived lymphokine known to stimulate the growth of hemopoietic stem and progenitor cells, also acted on macrophages. PSF was absorbed from medium that had been mixed for two hours at 0 degrees C with either resident or thioglycollate-elicited peritoneal cells, suggesting the presence of receptors for PSF o...

Persufflation (PSF; gaseous oxygen perfusion) is an organ preservation technique with a potential for use in donor heart preservation. Improved heart preservation with PSF may improve outcomes by maintaining cardiac tissue quality in the setting of longer cold ischemia times and possibly increasing the number of donor hearts available for allotransplant. Published data suggests that PSF is able...