Multi-dimensional Imaging

Preface

Imaging sciences and engineering are rapidly evolving in many ways by encompassing more sensing modalities, display media, digital domains, and consumer products. This field of research and development is frenetically active in multiple scientific, innovative disciplines including those of materials, sensors, displays, algorithms, and applications. Today, the term “optical image” refers not only to the concept of image formation and its multiple analysis, reconstruction, and visualization techniques, but also to computer vision, terahertz frequencies and electromagnetic imaging, medical imaging, algorithms for processing of images, and three-dimensional image sensing, among many others.

In the last two decades, research into advanced imaging systems has made great progress. There are many new procedures in microscopy that overcome the classical resolution limit. The field has benefited from the astonishing results of computational imaging techniques. The advances in imaging through turbid and scattering media allow the achievement of images with good resolution, either from deep layers of tissue in living beings, or the cosmos through telescopes on Earth's surface. Optics in the life sciences incorporates new methods for noninvasive imaging of in vivo biological material and the tools to translate that knowledge and procedures for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. Sources of entangled photons in quantum imaging can provide high-quality images at a very low ...