Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I began serious work on this text on the Fourth of July, 2004. I thank Rachael, Katherine, and Alexander for letting me write on the 4th (and occasionally on other holidays) and for their patience, love, and support over the 4 years absorbed by this project.

Draft forms of this text were used to teach courses at Duke University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Arizona. I thank the students enrolled in those courses for their patience with the text and problems and for helping to improve the material. I am also grateful to colleagues and students at the University of Minnesota, where I developed this text as a visitor to the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications in Fall 2005.

The students and staff of the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program (DISP) and its previous incarnation as the Illinois Interferometric Imaging Initiative were essential to the development of this text. Thanks to Alan Chen, Kent Hill, Scott Basinger, Ken Purchase, Junpeng Guo, Daniel Marks, Ron Stack, Remy Tumbar, Prasant Potluri, Yunhui Zheng, Evan Cull, John Burchette, Mohan Shankar, Bob Hao, Scott McCain, Scott Witt, Rick Tarka, Rick Morrison, George Barbastathis, Michal Balberg, Jose Jimenez, Matt Fetterman, Unnikrishnan Gopinathan, Santosh Narayankhedkar, Zhaochun Xu, Shawn Kraut, Ben Hamza, Michael Gehm, Yanquia Wang, Arnab Sinha, Michael Sullivan, Renu John, Nikos Pitsianis, Paul Vosburgh, Leah Goldsmith, and Bob Guenther. Current DISPers Andrew Portnoy, Christina ...