Issue
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 47, Number C5, Août 1986
International Workshop on Evaluation of Single-Crystal Diffraction Data from 2-D Position-Sensitive Detectors
Page(s) C5-43 - C5-53
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1986506
International Workshop on Evaluation of Single-Crystal Diffraction Data from 2-D Position-Sensitive Detectors

J. Phys. Colloques 47 (1986) C5-43-C5-53

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1986506

MAXIMUM ENTROPY DATA ANALYSIS

R.K. BRYAN

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-6900 Heidelberg, F.R.G.


Abstract
The maximum entropy method has been shown to be the only regularisation method which does not introduce correlations into the solution of inverse problems for which there was no evidence in the data. If the data and image are linearly related, there is a unique maximum entropy solution. In such cases the solution can be found reliably by fast numerical algorithms. The method is discussed here particularly in relation to the deconvolution problem, considering also the effects of missing data points, and the possibility of refining parameters defining the point spread function, illustrated by many computational examples.