Higher-order phase shift reconstruction approach

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5238-5242

  Cong, Wenxiang ^a   Wang, Ge ^a  

^a Medical Center Boulevard   (United States)

Author keywords

intensity of transport equation; paraxial Fresnel Kirchhoff diffraction theory; phase retrieval; x ray phase contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HISTOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TISSUE; X RAY ABSORPTION;

3D REFRACTIVE INDEX DISTRIBUTION; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION PATTERNS; FRESNEL-KIRCHHOFF DIFFRACTION; PHASE RETRIEVAL; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT OF INTENSITY EQUATION (TIE); X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 77957697042     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3488888     Document Type: Article

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