Refraction-based tomosynthesis: Proof of the concept

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Maksimenko, Anton ^a,c   Yuasa, Tetsuya ^b   Ando, Masami ^c   Hashimoto, Eiko ^d  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IBARAKI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFECTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BLURRING; TOMOSYNTHESIS; X-RAY ABSORPTION CONTRAST;

REFRACTION;

EID: 36849094352     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2819605     Document Type: Article

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