Accorsi R, Lanza R C
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Appl Opt. 2001 Sep 10;40(26):4697-705. doi: 10.1364/ao.40.004697.
Coded apertures for imaging problems are typically based on arrays having perfect cross-correlation properties. These arrays, however, guarantee a perfect point-spread function in far-field applications only. When these arrays are used in the near-field, artifacts arise. We present a mathematical derivation capable of predicting the shape of such artifacts. The theory shows that methods used in the past to compensate for the effects of background nonuniformities in far-field problems are also effective in reducing near-field artifacts. The case study of a nuclear medicine problem is presented to show good agreement of simulation and experimental results with mathematical predictions.
