In order to suppress the pseudo-Gibbs phenomena around singularities of fused images and to reduce significant amounts of aliasing components located far away from desired supports when the original Contourlet is employed in the image fusion,a multifocus image fusion method in Sharp Frequency Localized Contourlet Transform (SFLCT) domain based on a sum-modified-Laplacian is proposed. The SFLCT,instead of the original Contourlet,is utilized as the multiscale transform to decompose the original multifocus images into subbands. Then,typical measurements for the multifocus image fusion in a spatial domain are introduced to the Contourlet domain and Sum-modified-Laplacian (SML),and the criterion to distinguish SFLCT coefficients from the clear parts or from blurry parts of images are employed in SFCLT subbands to select the SFLCT transform coefficients. Finally,the inverse SFLCT is used to reconstruct fused images. Moreover,a cycle spinning method is applied to compensate for the lack of translation invariance property and to suppress the pseudo-Gibbs phenomena of fused images. Using the proposed fusion method,experimental results demonstrate that the mutual information has improved by 5.87% and transferred edge information QAB/F has improved by 2.70% as compared with those of the cycle spinning wavelet method,and has improved by 1.77% and 1.29% as compared with those of the cycle spinning Contourlet method. Meanwhile,the proposed fusion method has advantages of good visual effect over the block-based spatial SML method and shift-invariant wavelet method.