On Fourier imaging techniques for biomedical imaging

This paper shows that confocal imaging is in fact closely related to the Born approximation and that Fourier imaging techniques based on the Born approximation can provide comparable images for significantly less processing time, thus showing that this type of algorithm should, at the very least, be given more attention. We first outline a Fourier-based imaging algorithm, give a brief overview of confocal imaging and show how confocal imaging is related to the Born approximation. We then provide results comparing the focusing capabilities of both algorithms