A coded-aperture technique allowing x-ray phase contrast imaging with conventional sources

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Olivo, Alessandro ^a   Speller, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

IMAGE CONTRAST; PCI IMAGES; PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING (PCI); X-RAY IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34548046244     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2772193     Document Type: Article

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