Beam hardening effects in grating-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1189-1195

  Chabior, Michael ^a   Donath, Tilman ^b   David, Christian ^b   Bunk, Oliver ^b   Schuster, Manfred ^a   Schroer, Christian ^c   Pfeiffer, Franz ^d  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

phase contrast; x ray grating interferometer; x ray beam hardening

Indexed keywords

HARDENING; INTERFEROMETERS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; WAVEFRONTS;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFTS; GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE; PHASE CONTRASTS; X-RAY BEAM HARDENINGS; X-RAY GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; X-RAY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79952158848     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3553408     Document Type: Article

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