Noninterferometric phase-contrast images obtained with incoherent x-ray sources

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1765-1769

  Olivo, Alessandro ^a   Ignatyev, Konstantin ^a   Munro, Peter R T ^a   Speller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SOURCES; X RAY APPARATUS;

CODED APERTURES; CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; REAL-WORLD IMPLEMENTATION; X-RAY ENERGIES; X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAY OPTICS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ABSORPTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; X-RAYS;

EID: 79958735221     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001765     Document Type: Article

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