Quantitative x-ray dark-field computed tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5529-5539

  Bech, M ^a   Bunk, O ^b   Donath, T ^b   Feidenhans'l, R ^c   David, C ^b   Pfeiffer, F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DARKNESS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DARKNESS; DIFFUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149338322     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/18/017     Document Type: Article

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