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7.1 Overview of FOC Characteristics
Table 7.1 lists certain effects owing to the design of the FOC detector, optics, and electronics that afflict all FOC images and indicates whether the pipeline corrects for them. .
The diagram below (Figure 7.1) describes where these various instrumental characteristics arise.
Figure 7.1: Sources of Instrumental Characteristics
The ideal calibration algorithm applies to the raw data the inverse transformation to that which converted the input image to the output image. Each step would apply the corrections in reverse order, starting with the nonlinearity correction. In practice, the individual components of the ideal transformation are not known accurately, so such a process is unrealistic. Therefore, some of these effects are addressed only partially in the pipeline while others are not corrected at all. The following sections describe the limitations of these calibrations and their effects on the uncorrected image characteristics.
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