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Results are presented of a powerful technique for image reconstruction by a maximum entropy method, which is sufficiently fast to be useful for large and complicated images. Although our examples are taken from the fields of radio and X-ray astronomy, the technique is immediately applicable in spectroscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, geophysics and virtually any type of optical image processing. Applied to radioastronomical data, the algorithm reveals details not seen by conventional analysis, but which are known to exist.
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Gull, S., Daniell, G. Image reconstruction from incomplete and noisy data. Nature 272, 686–690 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/272686a0
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