Noise properties of grating-based x-ray phase contrast computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Köhler, Thomas ^a   Jürgen Engel, Klaus ^a   Roessl, Ewald ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

grating based phase contrast imaging; phase contrast tomography; Talbot interferometer

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POWER SPECTRUM; WAVE PROPAGATION; X RAYS;

CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVENTIONAL ABSORPTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; PHASE CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; PHASE CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; TALBOT INTERFEROMETER; WAVE PROPAGATION APPROACHES;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 79960904355     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3532396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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