Limitations imposed by specimen phase gradients on the design of grating based x-ray phase contrast imaging systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 3860-3863

  Munro, Peter R T ^a   Ignatyev, Konstantin ^a   Speller, Robert D ^a   Olivo, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS;

APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; PHASE GRADIENT; RADIATION PHYSICS; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; X-RAY SOURCES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; X RAY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PHOTONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 77955878744     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.003860     Document Type: Article

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