Optimization of image recording distances for quantitative X-ray in-line phase contrast imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4170-4181

  Ren, Yuqi ^a,b   Chen, Can ^a,b   Chen, Rongchang ^a,c   Zhou, Guangzhao ^a,b   Wang, Yudan ^a,b   Xiao, Tiqiao ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; X RAYS;

DAMPING OSCILLATION; DIGITAL SIMULATION; IMAGE-BASED; IN-LINE PHASE CONTRAST; PHASE RETRIEVAL; RECORDING DISTANCE; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE SAMPLE; SPECTRAL CORRELATION; XRAY IMAGING;

IMAGE RECORDING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952138364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004170     Document Type: Article

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