1. A method of correcting an image of an object, the image comprising one or more dimensions and having a plurality of image elements and the image being corrupted by smearing, to remove the effect of the smearing on the image, the method comprising the steps of: a) sampling portions of the image of the object at unequal intervals, the intervals being selected to effect an implicit weighting of the samples corresponding to a predetermined weighting function; b) summing the implicitly weighted samples to create an approximation to a weighted integral; c) repeating steps a)-b) to compute weighted integrals associated with each of the plurality of image elements thereby to obtain a correction to the image.