Feasibility study of the iterative x-ray phase retrieval algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-98

  Meng, Fanbo ^a   Liu, Hong ^a   Wu, Xizeng ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTICS;

CALCULATION TIME; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; ITERATIVE PHASE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; PHASE RETRIEVAL; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; X-RAY PHASE IMAGING; X-RAY PHASE-RETRIEVAL;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 59049103852     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000091     Document Type: Article

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