Advances in the visualization of unstained brain tumors using grating-based x-ray phase-contrast tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7078, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Franz ^a,b   Bunk, Oliver ^a   David, Christian ^a   Bech, Martin ^c   Le Duc, Geraldine ^d   Bravin, Alberto ^d   Cloetens, Peter ^d  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Phase contrast; Tumor visualization; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TUBES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; VEGETATION; VISUALIZATION; X RAYS;

BRAIN TUMORS; CONTRAST AGENTS; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; PHASE CONTRAST; PHASE TOMOGRAPHIES; RAT BRAINS; SOFT TISSUES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TRANSMISSION GRATINGS; TUMOR VISUALIZATION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

X RAY TUBES;

EID: 56249099354     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.794666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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