Soft-tissue phase-contrast tomography with an x-ray tube source

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2747-2753

  Bech, Martin ^a   Jensen, Torben H ^a   Feidenhans'L, Robert ^a   Bunk, Oliver ^b   David, Christian ^b   Pfeiffer, Franz ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EX-VIVO; FOCAL SPOT; FORMALIN; GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; MEAN ENERGY; PHASE CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; SOFT TISSUE; X-RAY TUBE SOURCE;

FORMALDEHYDE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

RADIOISOTOPE GAGES;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST; ENERGY; EX VIVO STUDY; GRATING; HEART; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERFEROMETER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE; X RAY TUBE; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649884053     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/010     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Als-Nielsen J and McMorrow D 2001 Elements of Modern X-ray Physics (New York: Wiley)
2. Beckmann F, Heise K, Kolsch B, Bonse U, Rajewsky M F, Bartscher M and Biermann T 1999 Three-dimensional imaging of nerve tissue by x-ray phase-contrast microtomography Biophys. J. 76 98-102
3. Bonse U and Hart M 1965 An x-ray interferometer with long separated interfering beam paths Appl. Phys. Lett. 6 155-6
4. Bravin A 2003 Exploiting the x-ray refraction contrast with an analyser: the state of the art J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36 A24-9
5. Clauser J F 1998 Ultrahigh resolution interferometric x-ray imaging US Patent no. 5 812 629
6. Cloetens P, Mache R, Schlenker M and Lerbs-Mache S 2006 Quantitative phase tomography of Arabidopsis seeds reveals intercellular void network Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 103 14626-30
7. Cormack A M 1963 Representation of a function by its line integrals, with some radiological applications J. Appl. Phys. 34 2722
8. David C, Bruder J, Rohbeck T, Grunzweig C, Kottler C, Diaz A, Bunk O and Pfeiffer F 2007a Fabrication of diffraction gratings for hard x-ray phase contrast imaging Microelectron. Eng. 84 1172-7 (Pubitemid 46678358)
9. David C, Nöhammer B, Solak H H and Ziegler E 2002 Differential x-ray phase contrast imaging using a shearing interferometer Appl. Phys. Lett. 81 3287-9
10. David C, Weitkamp T, Pfeiffer F, Diaz A, Bruder J, Rohbeck T, Groso A, Bunk O, Stampanoni M and Cloetens P 2007b Hard x-ray phase imaging and tomography using a grating interferometer Spectrochim. Acta B 62 626-30 (Pubitemid 47198982)
11. Henke B L, Gullikson E M and Davis J C 1993 X-ray interactions: photoabsorption, scattering, transmission, and reflection at E=50-30000 eV, Z=1-92 At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 54 181-342
12. Hounsfield G N 1973 Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography): part I. Description of system Br. J. Radiol. 46 1016-22
13. Kak A C and Slaney M 2001 Principles of Computeruzed Tomographic Imaging (Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
14. Keyriläinen J, Fernandez M and Suortti P 2002 Refraction contrast in x-ray imaging Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 488 419-27
15. Mayo S, Davis T, Gureyev T, Miller P, Paganin D, Pogany A, Stevenson A and Wilkins S 2003 X-ray phase-contrast microscopy and microtomography Opt. Express 11 2289-302
16. Momose A, Kawamoto S, Koyama I, Hamaishi Y, Takai K and Suzuki Y 2003 Demonstration of x-ray Talbot interferometry Japan. J. Appl. Phys. 42 L866-8
17. Momose A, Takeda T and Itai Y 1995 Phase-contrast x-ray computed tomography for observing biological specimens and organic materials Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66 1434-6
18. Momose A, Yashiro W, Takeda Y, Suzuki Y and Hattori T 2006 Phase tomography by x-ray Talbot interferometry for biological imaging Japan. J. Appl. Phys. 45 5254-62 (Pubitemid 43925072)
19. Pfeiffer F, Bunk O, David C, Bech M, Duc G L, Bravin A and Cloetens P 2007a High-resolution brain tumor visualization using three-dimensional x-ray phase contrast tomography Phys. Med. Biol. 52 6923-30
20. Pfeiffer F, Bunk O, Kottler C and David C 2007b Tomographic reconstruction of three-dimensional objects from hard x-ray differential phase contrast projection images Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 580 925-8
21. Pfeiffer F, Kottler C, Bunk O and David C 2007c Hard x-ray phase tomography with low-brilliance sources Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 108105
22. Pfeiffer F, Bunk O, David C, Bech M, Duc G L, Bravin A and Cloetens P 2008 Hard x-ray dark-field imaging using a grating interferometer Proc. SPIE 7078 707815
23. Pfeiffer F, Weitkamp T, Bunk O and David C 2006 Phase retrieval and diffrential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance x-ray sources Nature Phys. 2 258-61
24. Snigirev A, Snigireva I, Kohn V, Kuznetsov S and Schelokov I 1995 On the possibilities of x-ray phase contrast microimaging by coherent high-energy synchrotron radiation Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66 5486-92
25. Talbot H F 1836 Facts relating to optical science Phil. Mag. 9 401
26. Weitkamp T, David C, Bunk O, Bruder J, Cloetens P and Pfeiffer F 2008 X-ray phase radiography and tomography of soft tissue using grating interferometry Eur. J. Radiol. 68 13-7
27. Weitkamp T, Diaz A, David C, Pfeiffer F, Stampanoni M, Cloetens P and Ziegler E 2005 X-ray phase imaging with a grating interferometer Opt. Express 12 6296-304
28. Wilkins S W, Gureyev T E, Gao D, Pogany A and Stevenson A W 1996 Phase-contrast imaging using polychromatic hard x-rays Nature 384 335-7
29. Zhong Z, Thomlinson W, Chapman D and Sayers D 2000 Implementation of diffraction-enhanced imaging experiments: at the NSLS and APS Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 450 556-67