Simulation of X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography of a medical phantom comprising particle and wave contributions

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Bartl, Peter ^a   Durst, Jürgen ^a   Haas, Wilhelm ^a   Hempel, Eckhard ^b   Michel, Thilo ^a   Ritter, André ^a   Weber, Thomas ^a   Anton, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Grating interferometry; Medical imaging; Monte Carlo simulation; Phase contrast; Wave propagation; X ray simulation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION IMAGES; BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DARK FIELD IMAGES; GRATING INTERFEROMETRY; IMAGING COMPONENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL PHANTOM; MODULAR CONCEPTS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PARTICLE AND WAVES; PHASE IMAGE; PHASE-CONTRAST; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL COHERENCE; X RAY PHOTONS; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79957991906     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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