Quantitative phase-contrast tomography of a liquid phantom using a conventional x-ray tube source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10010-10018

  Herzen, Julia ^a   Donath, Tilman ^b   Pfeiffer, Franz ^b,c,d   Bunk, Oliver ^b   Padeste, Celestino ^a   Beckmann, Felix ^a   Schreyer, Andreas ^a   David, Christian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPE GAGES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST; POLYCHROMATIC X-RAYS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE PHASE CONTRASTS; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; THEORETICAL VALUES; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

X RAY TUBES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66849138433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010010     Document Type: Article

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