2D and 3D X-ray phase retrieval of multi-material objects using a single defocus distance

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6423-6436

  Beltran, M A ^a,b   Paganin, D M ^a,b   Uesugi, K ^a,b   Kitchen, M J ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

APRIORI; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION; DEFOCUS DISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; INTENSITY EQUATION; MATERIAL OBJECTS; MATERIAL TESTS; MULTI MATERIALS; PHASE CONTRAST DATA; PHASE-RETRIEVAL; SPRING-8; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TOMOGRAPHIC; X-RAY PHASE; X-RAY PHASE CONTRAST IMAGES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; SYNCHROTRON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 77950290773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006423     Document Type: Article

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