Performance analysis of the attenuation-partition based iterative phase retrieval algorithm for in-line phase-contrast imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16074-16089

  Yan, Aimin ^a   Wu, Xizeng ^a   Liu, Hong ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; G-S ALGORITHMS; GERCHBERG-SAXTON; IMAGE NOISE; IN-LINE; ITERATIVE PHASE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; PARTITION-BASED ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE RETRIEVAL; PHASE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT OF INTENSITY EQUATIONS; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST;

EID: 77954919016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016074     Document Type: Article

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