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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2007 Jul;24(7):1901–1910. doi: 10.1364/josaa.24.001901

Table 1. Prior Imaging Applications of the Studied Speckle-Reduction Filters.

Filter's Name Some Applications of the Filter References
ELEE Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radar, remote sensing, ultrasound, sonar 17, 24–26
HMF Remote sensing, high definition TV (HDTV), electron microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) 20,27–30
SNN Scanning Auger microscopy (SAM) 21,31
A trous wavelet 1 Confocal microscopy, fluorescent imaging, wide-field microscopy, astrophysics, astronomical images, 18, 36–40
A trous wavelet 2 Same as above 19
Kuwahara [22] MRI, x-ray imaging, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), neural networks 22, 41–45
Adaptive Wiener Sonar, microarray imaging, SPECT, computed tomography (CT) 23, 32–35