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Motivation

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Maximum Entropy image reconstruction is very good, but has a flaw: The ME reconstruction is done on the data (pixel) grid without regard for the information content of the image.

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Hence the ME reconstruction uses more degrees of freedom than are justified by the data.

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A Pixon-Based reconstruction uses the fewest degrees of freedom required by the data.


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