• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 12, Issue 12, 121701 (2014)
Zhenghua Wu1, Mingjian Sun1, Qiang Wang1, Ting Liu1, Naizhang Feng1, Jie Liu1、2, and Yi Shen1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Control Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • 2Microsoft Research, Redmond 98052, USA
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    DOI: 10.3788/col201412.121701 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhenghua Wu, Mingjian Sun, Qiang Wang, Ting Liu, Naizhang Feng, Jie Liu, Yi Shen. Photoacoustic microscopy image resolution enhancement via directional total variation regularization[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(12): 121701 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is recognized as a powerful tool for various microcirculation system studies. To improve the spatial resolution for the PAM images, the requirements of the system will always be increased correspondingly. Without additional cost of the system, we address the problem of improving the resolution of PAM images by integrating a deconvolution model with a directional total variation regularization. Additionally, we present a primal-dual-based algorithm to solve the associated optimization problem efficiently. Results from both test images and some PAM images studies validate the effectiveness of the proposed method in enhancing the spatial resolution. We expect the proposed technique to be an alternativeresolution enhancement tool for some important biomedical applications.
    Zhenghua Wu, Mingjian Sun, Qiang Wang, Ting Liu, Naizhang Feng, Jie Liu, Yi Shen. Photoacoustic microscopy image resolution enhancement via directional total variation regularization[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(12): 121701
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