Spatio-temporal imaging of light transport in strongly scattering media

Author(s):  
Amaury Badon ◽  
Dayan Li ◽  
Geoffroy Lerosey ◽  
Claude Boccara ◽  
Mathias Fink ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Pattelli

Paper, milk, clouds and white paint share a common property: they are opaque disordered media through which light scatters randomly rather than propagating in a straight path. For very thick and turbid media, indeed, light eventually propagates in a ‘diffusive’ way, i.e. similarly to how tea infuses through hot water. Frequently though, a material is neither perfectly opaque nor transparent and the simple diffusion model does not hold. In this work, we developed a novel optical-gating setup that allowed us to observe light transport in scattering media with sub-ps time resolution. An array of unexplored aspects of light propagation emerged from this spatio-temporal description, unveiling transport regimes that were previously inaccessibile due to the extreme time scales involved and the lack of analytical models.


Optica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaury Badon ◽  
Dayan Li ◽  
Geoffroy Lerosey ◽  
A. Claude Boccara ◽  
Mathias Fink ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 306-1-306-6
Author(s):  
Florian Schiffers ◽  
Lionel Fiske ◽  
Pablo Ruiz ◽  
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos ◽  
Oliver Cossairt

Imaging through scattering media finds applications in diverse fields from biomedicine to autonomous driving. However, interpreting the resulting images is difficult due to blur caused by the scattering of photons within the medium. Transient information, captured with fast temporal sensors, can be used to significantly improve the quality of images acquired in scattering conditions. Photon scattering, within a highly scattering media, is well modeled by the diffusion approximation of the Radiative Transport Equation (RTE). Its solution is easily derived which can be interpreted as a Spatio-Temporal Point Spread Function (STPSF). In this paper, we first discuss the properties of the ST-PSF and subsequently use this knowledge to simulate transient imaging through highly scattering media. We then propose a framework to invert the forward model, which assumes Poisson noise, to recover a noise-free, unblurred image by solving an optimization problem.


2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 10392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica C. Ramella-Roman ◽  
Scott A. Prahl ◽  
Steven L. Jacques

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