An extended diffraction-enhanced imaging method for implementing multiple-image radiography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1923-1945

  Chou, Cheng Ying ^a   Anastasio, Mark A ^a   Brankov, Jovan G ^a   Wernick, Miles N ^a   Brey, Eric M ^a,b   Connor Jr , Dean M ^c   Zhong, Zhong ^c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SCATTERING;

MULTIPLE-IMAGE RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRA-SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING (USAXS); X-RAY ABSORPTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION ENHANCED IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON; VALIDATION STUDY; X RAY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CAROTID ARTERIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 34247519770     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/7/011     Document Type: Article

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