Improving visibility of X-ray phase-contrast imaging with Wiener filtering

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-292

  Gong, Shaorun ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Zhou, Zhongxing ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBLURRING; DIFFRACTION INTEGRAL; FINITE SIZE; IN-LINE; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MODEL-BASED; NOISE SPECTRA; NOISE SUPPRESSION; OPTIMAL TRADEOFFS; PHASE-CONTRAST; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; SIMULATION TOOL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYSTEM NOISE; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WIENER FILTERS; WIENER-FILTERING; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY; X RAYS;

X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 77956298908     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/XST-2010-0260     Document Type: Article

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