Refracting Röntgen's rays: Propagation-based x-ray phase contrast for biomedical imaging

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Gureyev, T E ^a   Mayo, S C ^a   Myers, D E ^a,b   Nesterets, Ya ^a   Paganin, D M ^a,c   Pogany, A ^a   Stevenson, A W ^a   Wilkins, S W ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; DETECTOR RESOLUTION; IMAGING MECHANISM; LATTER MECHANISM; NOBEL PRIZES; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; PHYSICAL IMAGING; SOURCE SIZES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION; WINNING WORK; X RAY PHASE CONTRAST; X RAY SPECTRUM; X-RAY ATTENUATION; XRAY IMAGING;

ABSORPTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; X RAY ANALYSIS;

X RAYS;

EID: 66549107353     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3115402     Document Type: Article

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