Quantitative comparison between two phase contrast techniques: Diffraction enhanced imaging and phase propagation imaging

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 709-724

  Pagot, Elodie ^a,c   Fiedler, Stefan ^a,d   Cloetens, Peter ^a   Bravin, Alberto ^a   Coan, Paola ^a   Fezzaa, Kamel ^b   Baruchel, José ^a   Härtwig, Jürgen ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; TISSUE; X RAYS;

DIFFRACTION ENHANCED IMAGING (DEI); IMAGING PARAMETERS; PHANTOMS; PHASE PROPAGATION IMAGING (PPI);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION ENERGY; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISIBILITY; X RAY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 14644442950     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/4/010     Document Type: Article

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