IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY EMPLOYING RECIPROCAL SPACE OPTICAL DESIGN

摘要

An imaging system (10) and methodology (600) is provided to facilitate opticalimaging performance. The system (10) includes a sensor (20) having one or morereceptors and an image transfer medium (30) to scale the sensor and receptorsto an object field of view (54). A computer (824), memory (864), and/ordisplay (864) associated with the sensor (20) provides storage and/or displayof information relating to output from the receptors to produce and/or processan image, wherein a plurality of illumination sources (60) can also beutilized in conjunction with the image transfer medium (30). The imagetransfer medium (30) can be configured as a k-space filter (110) thatcorrelates a pitch (116) associated with the receptors to a diffraction-limited spot (50) within the object field of view (54), wherein the pitch(116) can be unit-mapped to about the size of the diffraction- limited spot(50) within the object field of view (54).