Phase-contrast tomography of single-material objects from few projections

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 908-919

  Myers, G R ^a   Paganin, D M ^a,b   Gureyev, T E ^b   Mayo, S C ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; X RAY MICROSCOPES;

BINARY TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM PHASE-CONTRAST; PHASE-RETRIEVAL METHOD; SINGLE-MATERIAL OBJECT;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 38549119450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000908     Document Type: Article

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