A Method for Local Deconvolution

A new method for deconvolution of one-dimensional and multidimensional data is suggested. The proposed algorithm is local in the sense that the deconvolved data at a given point depend only on the value of the experimental data and their derivatives at the same point. In a regularized version of the algorithm the deconvolution is constructed iteratively with the help of an approximate deconvolution operator that requires only the low-order derivatives of the data and low-order integral moments of the point-spread function. This algorithm is expected to be particularly useful in applications in which only partial knowledge of the point-spread function is available. We tested and compared the proposed method with some of the popular deconvolution algorithms using simulated data with various levels of noise.