Beam hardening in x-ray differential phase contrast computed tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bevins, Nicholas ^a   Zambelli, Joseph ^a   Li, Ke ^a   Qi, Zhihua ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM HARDENING; BEAM HARDENING EFFECTS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION; CT IMAGE; DATA INCONSISTENCIES; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; IMAGING EQUATIONS; IN-PHASE; INTENSITY DATA; INTENSITY IMAGES; LINE INTEGRALS; LOWER ENERGIES; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE INFORMATION; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; AXIAL DIRECTION; CONTRAST MECHANISM; FAN BEAMS; GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; IMAGE OBJECTS; SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION; SMALL DETECTORS; VOLUMETRIC RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY PHASE;

ABSORPTION; HARDENING; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955762506     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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