%0 Journal Article %T Minimal Absorption Measurements %A Serge Massar %A Graeme Mitchison %A Stefano Pironio %J Physics %D 2001 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.062303 %X We show that it is not possible to discriminate two close transparencies without a certain number of photons being absorbed. We extend this to the discrimination of patterns of transparency (images). %U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0102116v1