Fundamentals of Optical Imaging

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(Also offered as BME 6126 .) Learning optical imaging fundamentals. Topics include: review of two-dimensional linear system theory; scalar diffraction theory, wave optics, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction; imaging properties of lenses; image formation; optical resolution in imaging, frequency analysis of optical imaging systems; imaging with coherent and incoherent sources, coherent transfer function; optical transfer function, point spread function, fundamentals of microscopy, two-dimensional spatial filtering; coherent optical information processing; frequency-domain spatial filter synthesis; holography.