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20142026
most citedOn the "unreasonable" effectiveness of Transport of Intensity imaging and optical deconvolution

89 citations · 183 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.med-ph2026

Phase-contrast micro-CT for intra-operative breast tumour margin assessment using a microfocus x-ray source and photon-counting detector

Michelle K. Croughan, Timur E. Gureyev, Jane Fox +5

Objective: Intra-operative tumour margin assessment during breast-conserving surgery requires rapid, high-resolution imaging of excised tissue, allowing the surgical team to take a…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Young double-slit interference with single hard x-ray photons

T. E. Gureyev, C. Hall, B. Arhatari +4

Young double-slit experiments using monochromatic hard X-rays with the energy of 25 keV are presented. The experiments were performed at a synchrotron source with a distance of 110…

physics.med-ph2022★ 7 cited

Fast unified reconstruction algorithm for conventional, phase-contrast and diffraction tomography

Timur E. Gureyev, Hamish G. Brown, Harry M. Quiney +1

A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable t…

physics.med-ph2022★ 4 cited

Three-dimensional contrast transfer function in phase-contrast tomography

Darren A. Thompson, Yakov I. Nesterets, Konstantin M. Pavlov +1

A new method is developed for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of multi-material objects using propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PB-CT) with phase retrieval v…

physics.med-ph2021★ 15 cited

Tomographic phase and attenuation extraction for a sample composed of unknown materials using X-ray propagation-based phase-contrast imaging

Samantha J. Alloo, David M. Paganin, Kaye S. Morgan +9

Propagation-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging (PB-PCXI) generates image contrast by utilizing sample-imposed phase-shifts. This has proven useful when imaging weakly-attenuating s…

physics.optics2020★ 6 cited

Relative roles of multiple scattering and Fresnel diffraction in the imaging of small molecules using electrons, Part II: Differential Holographic Tomography

T. E. Gureyev, H. M. Quiney, A. Kozlov +3

It has been argued that in atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of sparse weakly scattering structures, such as small biological molecules, multiple electron sc…

physics.optics2019★ 2 cited

Spatial resolution, noise and information in the computational-imaging era

David M. Paganin, Alexander Kozlov, Timur E. Gureyev

Imaging is an important means by which information is gathered regarding the physical world. Spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio are underpinning concepts. There is a pauc…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Noise-resolution uncertainty principle in classical and quantum systems

Timur E. Gureyev, Alexander Kozlov, Yakov I. Nesterets +2

It is proved that the width of a function and the width of the distribution of its values cannot be made arbitrarily small simultaneously. In the case of ergodic stochastic process…

physics.med-ph2018★ 2 cited

Fast three-dimensional phase retrieval in propagation-based x-ray tomography

Darren Thompson, Yakov I. Nesterets, Konstantin M. Pavlov +1

The following paper describes a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of multi-material objects based on propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PB-CT) with p…

physics.optics2017★ 89 cited

On the "unreasonable" effectiveness of Transport of Intensity imaging and optical deconvolution

T. E. Gureyev, Ya. I. Nesterets, A. Kozlov +2

The effectiveness of reconstructive imaging using the Homogeneous Transport of Intensity equation may be regarded as "unreasonable", because it has been shown to significantly incr…

physics.optics2017★ 8 cited

On the van Cittert - Zernike theorem for intensity correlations and its applications

Timur E. Gureyev, Alexander Kozlov, David M. Paganin +3

A reciprocal relationship between the autocovariance of the light intensity in the source plane and in the far-field detector plane is presented in a form analogous to the classica…

physics.med-ph2017★ 4 cited

CT dose reduction factors in the thousands using X-ray phase contrast

Marcus J. Kitchen, Genevieve A. Buckley, Timur E. Gureyev +6

Phase-contrast X-ray imaging can improve the visibility of weakly absorbing objects (e.g. soft tissues) by an order of magnitude or more compared to conventional radiographs. Previ…

quant-ph2016★ 8 cited

On noise-resolution uncertainty in quantum field theory

Timur E. Gureyev, Alexander Kozlov, Yakov I. Nesterets +2

An uncertainty inequality is presented that establishes a lower limit for the product of the variance of the time-averaged intensity of a mode of a quantized electromagnetic field…

physics.med-ph2015★ 28 cited

On spatial resolution, signal-to-noise and information capacity of linear imaging systems

Timur Gureyev, Yakov Nesterets, Frank de Hoog

A simple model for image formation in linear shift-invariant systems is considered, in which both the detected signal and the noise variance are varying slowly compared to the poin…

physics.med-ph2015★ 1 cited

Evaluating the Performance of BSBL Methodology for EEG Source Localization On a Realistic Head Model

Sajib Saha, Rajib Rana, Ya. I. Nesterets +3

Source localization in EEG represents a high dimensional inverse problem, which is severely ill-posed by nature. Fortunately, sparsity constraints have come into rescue as it helps…

physics.med-ph2015

Linear algorithms for phase retrieval in the Fresnel region: validity conditions

T. E. Gureyev, Ya. I. Nesterets

We describe the relationship between different forms of linearized expressions for the spatial distribution of intensity of X-ray projection images obtained in the Fresnel region.…

q-bio.QM2015★ 3 cited

Sparse Bayesian Learning for EEG Source Localization

Sajib Saha, Frank de Hoog, Ya. I. Nesterets +3

Purpose: Localizing the sources of electrical activity from electroencephalographic (EEG) data has gained considerable attention over the last few years. In this paper, we propose…

physics.med-ph2014★ 1 cited

Evaluation of Spatial Resolution and Noise Sensitivity of sLORETA Method for EEG Source Localization Using Low-Density Headsets

Sajib Saha, Yakov I. Nesterets, Murat Tahtali +1

Electroencephalography (EEG) has enjoyed considerable attention over the past century and has been applied for diagnosis of epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury and other disor…