Clarification of aspects in in-line phase-sensitive x-ray imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 737-743

  Wu, Xizeng ^a   Liu, Hong ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase contrast; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION ALGORITHM; INTENSITY EQUATION; PARTIAL COHERENCE; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE SENSITIVE IMAGING; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; XRAY IMAGING;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; X RAY;

EID: 33846570888     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2431475     Document Type: Article

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