Front Cover -- Advances in Imaging and Electron Pahysics, Volume 106 -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Effects of Radiation Damage on Scientific Charge Coupled Devices -- I. Introduction -- II. Device Structure and Operation -- III. Radiation Damage -- IV. Dark Current -- V. Charge Transfer Efficiency -- VI. Read Noise -- VII. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2. CAD Using Green's Functions and Finite Elements and Comparison to Experimental Structures for Inhomogeneous Microstrip Circulators -- I. Introduction to CAD for Microstrip Circulators.

II. Ferrite Physical and Chemical Attributes Relevant to Microstrip Circulator Material Selection -- III. Processing of Ferrite Materials for Microstrip Circulator Structures -- IV. Microstrip Circulator Considerations for Modeling -- V. Setup Formulas for Numerical Evalution of Microstrip Circulators -- VI. Numerical Results and Comparison to Experiment for Microstrip Circulators -- VII. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. Discrete Geometry for Image Processing -- I. Introduction -- II. Binary Digital Images -- III. Digital Topology -- IV. Discrete Geometry.

V. Extensions in the 16-Neighborhood Space -- VI. Application to Vectorization -- VII. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Introduction to the Fractional Fourier Transform and Its Applications -- I. Introduction -- II. Notation and Definitions -- III. Fundamental Properties -- IV. Common Transform Pairs -- V. Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions -- VI. Operational Properties -- VII. Relation to the Wigner Distribution -- VIII. Fractional Fourier Domains -- IX. Differential Equations -- X. Hyperdifferential Form -- XI. Digital Simulation of the Transform.

XII. Applications to Wave and Beam Propagation -- XIII. Applications to Signal and Image Processing -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5. Confocal Microscopy -- I. Resolution in Light Microscopy -- II. Calculating Optical Properties -- III. Principles of Confocal Microscopy -- IV. Improving the Axial Resolution -- V. Nonlinear Imaging -- VI. Aperture Filters -- VII. Axial Tomography -- VIII. Spectral Precision Distance Microscopy -- IX. Computational Methods -- X. Spinning Disks -- XI. Perspectives of Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy -- References -- Index.