Comparison of refraction information extraction methods in diffraction enhanced imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16704-16710

  Hu, Chunhong ^a,b   Zhang, Lu ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Luo, Shuqian ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL IMAGING; REFRACTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

DIFFRACTION-ENHANCED IMAGING; IMPROVED CONTRASTS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION METHODS; MATERIAL APPLICATION; PHASE-SENSITIVE TECHNIQUE; REFRACTION ANGLES; REFRACTION CONTRASTS; REFRACTION IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 54249132064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016704     Document Type: Article

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