Phase unwrapping with a regularized phase-tracking system.

We develop a regularized phase-tracking (RPT) technique tounwrap phase maps. The phase maps that can be unwrapped with thisnew method may be bounded by arbitrarily shaped boundaries. Moreover, the RPT unwrapper has a higher noise robustness than previously reported phase-unwrapping schemes.

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