Preliminary study of a phase-contrast cone-beam computed tomography system: The edge-enhancement effect in the tomographic reconstruction of in-line holographic images

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Cai, Weixing ^a,b   Ning, Ruola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam computed tomography; Feldkamp Davis Kress algorithm; in line holography; phase contrast

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ORBIT; CONE ANGLE; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDGE ENHANCEMENTS; EDGE-ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; FELDKAMP-DAVIS-KRESS ALGORITHM; FELDKAMP-DAVIS-KRESS ALGORITHMS; FOCAL SPOT SIZE; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION THEORY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGES; IN-LINE; IN-LINE HOLOGRAPHY; LINE INTEGRALS; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; OBJECT FUNCTIONS; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE-CONTRAST; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650446327     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2897284     Document Type: Article

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