Our preliminary data suggest that ablation of gastric inlet patches by APC can alleviate chronic globus sensation or sore throat. Acid reflux or its treatment is unlikely to influence these results. A randomized and blinded study is warranted.

A novel implementation of lensless multiwavelength digital holography with autocalibration of temporal phase shifts and artificial wavelength is presented. The algorithm we used to calculate the phase shifts was previously proposed [Opt. Lett.29 183 (2004)] and, to our knowledge, is now used for the first time in lensless holography. Because precise knowledge of the generated artificial wavelength is crucial for absolute measurement accuracy, a simple and efficient method to determine the artificial wavelength directly is presented. The calibration method is based on a simple modification of the experimental setup and needs just one additional image acquisition per wavelength. The results of shape measurement of a metallic test object with a rough surface and steep edges are shown and the measurement accuracy is discussed.

A novel implementation of lensless multi-wavelength digital holography with arbitrary temporal phase-shifts is presented. The algorithm proposed by Cai et al. [1] is used to our knowledge for the first time in lensless holography.

An important issue in industrial quality control is the inspection of rapidly moving surfaces for small defects such as scratches, dents, grooves, or chatter marks. This paper investigates the potential of the EyeRIS 1.3 camera as a state-of-the-art camera based on cellular neural networks (CNN) for this application in comparison to conventional image processing systems. Based on experimental data from an aluminum wire drawing process where defects with a lateral size of 100 µm have to be detected at feeding rates of 10 m/s, the potential specifications for other surface inspection applications are estimated. Using the relation between the lateral defect size and the feeding rate as a figure of merit, the CNN based system outperforms conventional image processing systems by an order or magnitude in this particular application. In general, the lighting system limits the performance at lower defect sizes and the computational power at larger defect sizes and fields of view