Quantifying the spatial resolution of the maximum a posteriori estimate in linear, rank-deficient, Bayesian hard field tomography

Autor: Emmert, Johannes, Wagner, Steven, Daun, Kyle J.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6501/abb550
Popis: Image based diagnostics are interpreted in the context of spatial resolution. The same is true for tomographic image reconstruction. Current empirically driven approaches to quantify spatial resolution rely on a deterministic formulation based on point-spread functions which neglect the statistical prior information, that is integral to rank-deficient tomography. We propose a statistical spatial resolution measure based on the covariance of the reconstruction (point estimate) and show that the prior information acts as a lower limit for the spatial resolution. Furthermore, the spatial resolution measure can be employed for designing tomographic systems under consideration of spatial inhomogeneity of spatial resolution.
Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures
Databáze: arXiv