First phase-contrast tomography with thermal neutrons

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 364-370

  Dubus, François ^a,b   Bonse, Ulrich ^c   Zawisky, Michael ^b   Baron, Matthias ^b   Loidl, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b Atominst of the Austrian University   (Austria)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interferometric imaging; Isotopic distributions; Neutron interferometry; Neutron phase contrast tomography

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHASE SHIFT;

INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING; ISOTOPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; NEUTRON INTERFEROMETRY; NEUTRON PHASE-CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 17744393079     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.844319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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