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Holographic Methods for Imaging Into Volume Media (SC397)

This course provides attendees with a basic understanding of how the techniques of holography and optical processing can be applied to the problem of imaging through and into three dimensional structures, especially highly scattering media. The media of interest include such diverse examples as fog, turbulent atmosphere, plasmas, and biological tissues. This course surveys these techniques, with concentration on the more recent ones. Specific topics include: basics of broad source and achromatic interferometry and holography, their use in optical sectioning of thick structures, the relation of confocal imaging to broad source holography and synthetic aperture imaging, generalized confocal imaging, and photon migration methods, such as the Fourier decomposition and the Fourier synthesis methods, ensemble averaged imaging with phase recovery.

BENEFITS/LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This course will enable you to:
• judge the applicability of holographic methods to a specific problem
• understand the basic applicability of holographic and related techniques to the broad problem of imaging into and through thick scattering media
• understand how the techniques of holography relate to basic imaging modalities such as synthetic aperture, confocal, coherence gating and phase recovery.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This course is designed for engineers and scientists who have an interest in the problem of imaging into and through thick media, in its many manifestations, or who work or have intentions of working on such problems.

INSTRUCTOR
Emmett Leith is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prof Leath's research has been in the areas of synthetic aperture radar, optical processing and holography. He has authored or coauthored nearly 200 publications and is listed in various publications, including Who's Who in America. He is a Fellow of SPIE, the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE. He has received various awards, including the Gold Medal of SPIE, the Herbert Ives Medal of OSA, the Liebmann Award of IEEE, the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society of Britain, and the National Medal of Science. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information on SPIE's In-Company programs, contact Carol Nicolay, our In-Company course specialist. She may be reached by telephone at 360 676 3290, or fax at 360 647 1445.