Assessment of the use of a diffuser in propagation-based x-ray phase contrast imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13478-13491

  Irvine, S C ^a   Morgan, K S ^a   Suzuki, Y ^b   Uesugi, K ^b   Takeuchi, A ^b   Paganin, D M ^a   Siu, K K W ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; SPINNING (FIBERS); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

BEAM INTENSITY; BEAM LINES; COHERENCE WIDTH; COHERENT X-RAYS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DETECTOR PLANES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD OF VIEWS; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; FRINGE CONTRASTS; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTENSITY MAPS; PHASE SCREEN; RANDOM-PHASE; SECOND ORDER COHERENCE; SPRING-8; SYNCHROTRON X RAYS; X-RAY BEAMLINES; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL);

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYNCHROTRONS;

EID: 77953821349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013478     Document Type: Article

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