METHOD FOR CORRECTION OF RELATIVE OBJECT-DETECTOR MOTION BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE VIEWS
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1. Apparatus for correcting positioning and motion errors in an imaging system, comprising:
- means for acquiring and electronically storing at least two consecutive views of an object, said at least two views including M rows and N colunns of image brightness data;
a first producing means for producing a first set of modified copies of each of said at least two consecutive views by applying an alteration of brightness level to pixels having brightness levels within a specified range;
a first cross-correlation means for performing a cross-correlation between said first set of modified copies with a reference pattern to produce a first cross-correlated array;
a first locating means for locating and evaluating a maximum of the first cross-correlated array, where a location of said maximum determines the value of a coefficient “
A”
;
a second producing means for producing a second set of modified copies of each of said at least two consecutive views by applying an alteration of brightness level to pixels having brightness levels within a specified range;
a second cross-correlation means for performing a second cross-correlation between two of said set of modified copies to produce a second cross-correlation array;
a second locating means for locating and evaluating a restricted maximum of the second cross-correlation array, said restriction being that the row or column on which said restricted maximum is located must be orthogonal to and intersect the row or column on which coefficient “
A”
is located, the location of said restricted maximum determining a coefficient “
B;
” and
a motion-corrected image means for producing a motion-corrected image by shifting at least one of said at least two consecutive views by values determined by coefficient “
A,” and
coefficient “
B.”
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for correction of relative object-detector motion between successive views during optical tomographic imaging in three dimensions. An object of interest is illuminated to produce an image. A lateral offset correction value is determined for the image. An axial offset correction value is determined for the image. The lateral offset correction value and the axial offset correction value are applied to the image to produce a corrected file image.
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1. Apparatus for correcting positioning and motion errors in an imaging system, comprising:
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means for acquiring and electronically storing at least two consecutive views of an object, said at least two views including M rows and N colunns of image brightness data;
a first producing means for producing a first set of modified copies of each of said at least two consecutive views by applying an alteration of brightness level to pixels having brightness levels within a specified range;
a first cross-correlation means for performing a cross-correlation between said first set of modified copies with a reference pattern to produce a first cross-correlated array;
a first locating means for locating and evaluating a maximum of the first cross-correlated array, where a location of said maximum determines the value of a coefficient “
A”
;
a second producing means for producing a second set of modified copies of each of said at least two consecutive views by applying an alteration of brightness level to pixels having brightness levels within a specified range;
a second cross-correlation means for performing a second cross-correlation between two of said set of modified copies to produce a second cross-correlation array;
a second locating means for locating and evaluating a restricted maximum of the second cross-correlation array, said restriction being that the row or column on which said restricted maximum is located must be orthogonal to and intersect the row or column on which coefficient “
A”
is located, the location of said restricted maximum determining a coefficient “
B;
” and
a motion-corrected image means for producing a motion-corrected image by shifting at least one of said at least two consecutive views by values determined by coefficient “
A,” and
coefficient “
B.” - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for three dimensional (3D) reconstruction of an object of interest, comprising the steps of:
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(a) packing a set of objects of interest into a tube;
(b) illuminating at least one object of the set of objects of interest with at least one optical projection beam;
(c) translating the tube until the at least one object of interest is located within a region of the at least one optical projection beam;
(d) rotating the at least one object through a plurality of perspectives;
(e) generating an image at each perspective to produce a set of images; and
(f) correcting registration of the set of images of the at least one object of interest by determining a lateral offset correction value for each image, determining an axial offset correction value for each image, and applying the lateral offset correction value and the axial offset correction value to each image to produce a set of motion-corrected images. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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