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Original Articles

A Scientific Approach to Assessing Image Quality

Pages 162-172 | Received 23 Apr 1959, Published online: 22 Jul 2016
 

Abstract

An historical description of concepts of optical imagery is given, commencing with thework of Abbe and Rayleigh. Several criteria for image quality arose in the course of these developments. Frequency response is the contemporary approach to understanding opticalimages. Its fundamental and all-embracing nature as an image criterion is explained. Attempts are made to correlate the frequency response results with requirements the and findings of practical optics

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