Phase-contrast digital tomosynthesis

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2353-2358

  Hammonds, Jeffrey C ^a   Price, Ronald R ^a   Donnelly, Edwin F ^a   Pickens, David R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cabinet x ray system; digital tomosynthesis; phase contrast

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFTS; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; EDGE-ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; PHASE CONTRASTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; TUNGSTEN ANODE X-RAY TUBE; X-RAY SYSTEM;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 79959554643     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3574871     Document Type: Article

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