X-ray phase, absorption and scatter retrieval using two or more phase contrast images

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 19994-20012

  Kitchen, Marcus J ^a   Paganin, David M ^a   Uesugi, Kentaro ^b   Allison, Beth J ^a   Lewis, Robert A ^a   Hooper, Stuart B ^a   Pavlov, Konstantin M ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CURVE FITTING;

CRYSTAL GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE APPROACH; MOVING OBJECTS; PHASE RETRIEVAL; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; ROCKING CURVES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TWO PHASE; X-RAY DOSE; X-RAY PHASE;

X RAYS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77957001984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.019994     Document Type: Article

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