title: Information content of volume holographic imaging.
abstract: We discuss the general properties of optical imaging in three-dimensional object domains from an information-theoretic standpoint, expressing system performance in terms of imaging mutual information (IMI). We use IMI to characterize volume holographic imaging, a new optical imaging method with depth discrimination capability. The performance of this holographic method in imaging a simple discrete, axial fluorescent object is compared with that of two alternatives: a pinhole-based system and a combined system that uses both a pinhole and a hologram in parallel.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, USA. gbarb@mit.edu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barbastathis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sinha
mesh_terms: D006696:Holography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical