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In Development
  • The Tria Image Processing Program is now availalbe for 64-bit machines as a 64-bit program.  Processing speeds are up, and errors are down and more features have been added..
  •  PulseView version 1.3 is close to release.
  • We have finished our first technical note.  The paper is on the blind deconvolution of images produced by confocal microscopy, and also demonstrates the use of our IFWHM image metric. This paper was not accepted for publication, but has been revised according to the reviewers comments.  To be publishable, the Journal requires first-hand generation of the image set, which we could not provide.  We are working with collaborators for a follow-up paper. 
  • "GCLAD-in-a-Box", a complete and low-cost laser-based ultrasound sensor, is being developed for commercial sale. 
  • We are continuing to develop Continuous Laser Generation of Ultrasound as a means to create large ultrasound images in mere seconds.  A paper has been approved for Optics Letters and we are presenting a poster at the OSA FILAS conference in San Diego.
    • Selected References

    GCLAD

    • J.N. Caron, G.P. Dicomo, and S. Nikitin, "Continuous Laser Generation of Ultrasound for Nondestructive Evaluation," to be published in Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation , ed. by D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti, AIP, Vol. 30, 2011.
    • J.N. Caron, "Displacement and Deflection Sensitivity of Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic Detection," published in Laser Ultrasonics,  2008. abstract paper
    • J.N. Caron, "Displacement and Deflection of an Optical Beam by Airborne Ultrasound," published in Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation , ed. by D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti, AIP, Vol. 27A, 2008, p.247. abstract paper
    • J.N. Caron, D.M. Huber, V. DiPietro, and C.J. Rollins, "Progress towards a portable laser-based ultrasound sensor using gas-coupled laser acoustic detection," Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation , ed. by D.O. Thompson and D.E. Chimenti, AIP, Vol. 24A, 2005. abstract
    • J.N. Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Overview: Ultrasound sensing using Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic Detection,"  Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 17, 2002, p. 169.
    • J.N. Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl, and K.V. Steiner, ``Gas coupled laser acoustic detection for ultrasound inspection of composite materials", Materials Evaluation, Vol. 58, No. 5, 2001, p. 667. abstract
    • J.N. Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Multiple-beam detection using Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic Detection,"  Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol 20, 2000. abstract
    • J.N. Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Progress in Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic Detection," Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol 18, 1998, p.317.
    • J.N Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic Detection at Ultrasonic and Audible Frequencies," Review of Scientific Instruments, vol 69(8), 1998, p. 2912. abstract
    • Re-Discovered Paper==> J.N. Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Thermoelastic and Ablative Laser Generation of Ultrasonic Waveforms in Graphite/Polymer Composite Materials," submitted to the Journal for Applied Physics for publication, but was never published, May 1998. abstract  paper
    • J.N. Caron, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Acoustic-wave detection by optical beam deflection," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 103, No. 5, Pt. 2, May 1998.
    • J.N. Caron, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Laser-based ultrasonic NDE using gas-coupled laser acoustic
      detection.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 103, No. 5, Pt. 2, May 1998. 
    • J.N. Caron, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Ultrasonic NDE of Composite Panels by Gas-coupled Laser Acoustic Detection", Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, vol 17, 1997.
    • J.N. Caron, Application of Laser Ultrasonics to Graphite/Polymer Composites , Doctoral Dissertation, University of Delaware, August 1997.
    • J.N. Caron, Y. Yang, J.B. Mehl and K.V. Steiner, "Laser generation and detection of elastic waves in
      graphite/polymer composites," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 100, No. 4, Pt. 2, Oct. 1996.

    SeDDaRA

    • Exclusive Paper==> J.N. Caron, "Application of SeDDaRA Blind Deconvolution for Efficient Improvement of Confocal Microscopy Images", Quarktet Technical Note, February 2, 2011.  abstract  paper.
    • W.E. Vanderlinde and J.N. Caron, "Blind Deconvolution of SEM Images," Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis, November, 2007,  p. 97-102. abstract
    • J.N. Caron, "Rapid supersampling of multiframe sequences by use of blind deconvolution," Optics Letters, September, 2004, Vol 29, No. 17, p. 1986-1988. abstract  paper
    • J.N. Caron, "Blind deconvolution of audio-frequency signals using the self-deconvolving data restoration algorithm," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July, 2004, Vol 116, No. 1, p. 373-378. abstract  paper
    • J.N. Caron, N.M. Namazi, and C.J. Rollins, "Noniterative blind data restoration by use of an extracted filter function,"  Applied Optics, November 10, 2002, Vol 41, No. 32, p. 6884. abstract  paper
    • J.N. Caron, N.M. Namazi, R.L. Lucke, C.J. Rollins, and P.R. Lynn, Jr., "Blind data restoration with an extracted filter function,"  Optics Letters , August 1, 2001, Vol 26, No.15, p. 1164. abstract

    Due to copyright concerns, Quarktet is no longer providing full research papers for some journals.  If you have interest in a paper, feel free to ask us to send you a copy.

    Third-Party Papers

    These are published papers that reference or use our techniques.
      • Barmak Heshmat, Thomas E. Darcie, Keith Taylor,  Hamid Pahlevaninezhad, Masood Omoomi, and Saeid Sadri, "The effect of detector distance and beam width in acousto-optical beam deflection probing in air", Optics and Laser Technology, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 734-740, 2012.
      • Bo Wen, Qiheng Zhang and Jianlin Zhang, "Further optimization of SeDDaRA blind image deconvolution algorithm and its DSP implementation", Proc. SPIE 8005, 800502 (2011); doi:10.1117/12.901617.
      • Hao Yuanyuan, Zhang Yao, and Qi Xiaoping, "FPGA-based blind image restoration algorithm," Ordnance Industry Automation, Vol 29 (9), 2010.
      • Chao Wang, LiFeng Sun, ZhuoYuan Chen, JianWei Zhang and ShiQiang Yang, "Multi-scale blind motion deblurring using local minimum," Inverse Problems 26 015003, 2010.
      • Yu Tian,Changhui Rao,  Lei Zhu, and Xuejun Rao, "Modified self-deconvolution restoration algorithm for adaptive-optics solar images," Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 15, pp. 2541-2543 (2010) 
      • Tati Rajab Mengko, Astri Handayani, Vanya Vabrina Valindria, Samekta Hadi, and Iwan Sovani, "Image Processing in Retinal Angiography: Extracting Angiographical Features without the Requirement of Contrast Agents," MVA2009 IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, May 20-22, 2009.
      • Haorui Zuo, Qihen Zhang, and Rujin Zhao, "An efficiency restoration method for turbulence-degraded image base on improved SeDDaRA method," Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7383, 738341 (2009).
      • Zhimin Xu and Edmund Y. Lam, "Maximum a posteriori blind image deconvolution with Huber–Markov random-field regularization," Opt. Lett. 34, 1453-1455 (2009).
      • New! Hadi, Samekta,  "Restorasi Cita Autoflourescence Retina pada Kamera Fundus menggunakan Blind Deconvolution SeDDaRA". Tugas Akhir STEI ITB, 2008.
      • Sergey Chalkov, Natalie Meshalkina and Chang-Su Kim, "Post-Processing Algorithm for Reducing Ringing Artefacts. in Deblurred Images," 23rd International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications, 2008.
      • "Quality inspection and reliability study of solder bumps in packaged electronic devices: Using laser ultrasound and finite element methods" by Jin Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
      • Yuan, L., Sun, J., Quan, L., and Shum, H., "Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs." ACM Trans. Graph. Vol. 26, 3 (Jul. 2007), 1.
      • Dalong Li and Steve Simske, "Atmospheric Turbulence Degraded Image Restoration by Kurtosis Minimization," IEEE GeoScience and Remote Sensing Letters,  2009. (Although we do not agree with their results.)
      • Xiao-Yue Zhai, Erik Ilsø Christensen, and Arne Andreasen, "Low Noise Electron Microscopy by Merging Multiple Images Digitized from Conventional Films with Reference to the Mouse Kidney," Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 12, Issue 3, p.255-261, 2006.
      • Y. Sudo, N. Baba, N. Miura, S. Ueno, and R. Kitai, "Application of self-deconvolution method to shift-and-add solar imaging," Applied Optics, Vol, 45, 2707-2710 (2006).
      • Kouki Yamaguchi and Pak-Kon Choi, "Probing Focused Sound Fields Using Optical-Beam Deflection Method,"  Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 45, No. 5B, 2006, pp. 4621-4624.
      • "Spotlight on Hidden Physicists," Radiations, The Offical Publication of Sigma PI Sigma, Fall 2005, p. 16.
      • Kouki Yamaguchi and Pak-Kon Choi, "Probing Focused Sound Fields Using Optical-Beam Deflection Method," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 45, No. 5B, 2006, pp. 4621-4624.
      • Y. Perchenok, G. Hurvits, and A. Azoulay,  "Comparison of Damage and Ultrasonic Signals, Induced by Laser at Different Wavelengths, for Aluminum and Alumina Samples," REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION,  AIP Conference Proceedings -- April 9, 2005 -- Volume 760, pp. 1563-1567.
      • "SOLUTIONS OF THE YEAR - 2004", Advanced Imaging Magazine, January 2004. article
      • "Blind processing sharpens images," John Wallace, in LaserFocus World , November 2001, p. 43.
      • Matthias M. Koebel and Matthew Zimmt, "Temporal position encoding photoacoustics: A technique for surface absorber mapping," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, 116104 (2005).
      • E. Guilliorit and H. Tretout, "Portable and hybrid laser generation/air-couple detection system for non-destructive inspection," 16th  World Conference on NDT, Aug 30 - Sep 3, 2004 - Montreal, Canada.
      • A. García-Valenzuela, G. E. Sandoval-Romero, and C. Sánchez-Pérez, "High-Resolution Optical Angle Sensors: Approaching the Diffraction Limit to the Sensitivity," Appl. Opt. 43, 4311-4321 (2004).
      • Jyh-Long Chern and Ya-Ting Chuang, "Blind separation of unknown mixed images and its application to image masking," To Be Published.
      • Stepanov_Larichev, "Wide-angle deconvolution of human’s eye retinal images." Diploma Paper, 2006.
      •  Y. Perchenok, G. Hurvits, and A. Azoulay, "Comparison of Damage and Ultrasonic Signals, Induced by Laser at Different Wavelengths, for Aluminum and Alumina Samples,"  AIP Conference Proceedings -- April 9, 2005 -- Volume 760, Issue 1, pp. 1563-1567.
      • Shuyu Yang, Gavin Erry, Sheila C. Nemeth, Sunanda Mitra, Peter Soliz, "Image Restoration with High Resolution Adaptive Optical Imaging System," 17th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2004).
      • E. S. Barriga, G. Erry, S. Yang, S. Russell, B. Raman, and P. Soliz, "Application of adaptive optics in retinal imaging: A quantitative and clinical comparison with standard cameras."  Proceedings of SPIE -- Volume 5688, Ophthalmic Technologies XV, Fabrice Manns, April 2005, pp. 152-163.
      • Yoshifumi Sudo and Naoshi Baba, "Self-deconvolution for shift-and-add imaging," Opt. Lett. 30, 1309-1311 (2005).
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    As you may have noticed, the development of these technologies was greatly accelerated by the advisement and research of my colleagues at the University of Delaware, Research Support Instruments, the Naval Research Laboratory, and Catholic University of America. 

    Thank you all
    Jim Caron

    		caron@ quarktet.com 

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