%0 Book Section %T Resolution criterion and contrast factor for resolving two-line images under coherent and incoherent illumination publisher SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering %D 1990 %U 0-8194-0380-6 %@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60842 %X We define a resolution criterion for the case of two narrow line images. For doing so, we have considered the two lines as superposition of gradients of two Heaviside step-functions. %~