Sensitivity of X-ray grating interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18324-18338

  Modregger, P ^a,b   Pinzer, B R ^a   Thuring T ^a,c   Rutishauser, S ^a   David, C ^a   Stampanoni, M ^a,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERFEROMETRY;

ELECTRON DENSITIES; GRATING INTERFEROMETRY; PARALLEL BEAM GEOMETRY; PHASE STEPS; PHASE-CONTRAST; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; REFRACTION ANGLES; SPATIAL COHERENCE; X-RAY GRATINGS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052730044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018324     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. U. Bonse and M. Hart, "An X-ray interferometer," Appl. Phys. Lett. 6, 155-156 (1965).
2. A. Momose, T. Takeda, Y. Itai, and K. Hirano, "Phase-contrast X-ray computed tomography for observing biological soft tissues," Nat. Med. 2, 473-475 (1996).
3. A. Yoneyama, T. Takeda, Y. Tsuchiya, J. Wu, T.-T. Lwin, A. Koizumi, K. Hyodo, and Y. Itai, "A phase-contrast X-ray imaging system-with a 60 x 30 mm field of view based on a skew-symmetric two-crystal X-ray interferometer," Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 523, 217-222 (2004).
4. A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, V. Kohn, S. Kuznetsov, and I. Schelokov, "On the possibilities of X-ray phase contrast microimaging by coherent high-energy synchrotron radiation," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66, 5486-5492 (1995).
5. P. Cloetens, R. Barrett, J. Baruchel, J.-P. Guigay, and M. Schlenker, "Phase objects in synchrotron radiation hard X-ray imaging," J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 29, 133-146 (1996).
6. M. Langer, P. Cloetens, J.-P. Guigay, and F. Peyrin, "Quantitative comparison of direct phase retrieval algorithms in in-line phase tomography," Med. Phys. 35 4556-4566 (2008).
7. T. J. Davis, D. Gao, T. E. Gureyev, A. W. Stevenson, and S. W. Wilkins, "Phase-contrast imaging of weakly absorbing materials using hard X-rays," Nature 373, 595-598 (1995).
8. D. Chapman, W. Thomlinson, R. E Johnston, D. Washburn, E. D. Pisano, N. Gmür, Z. Zhong, R. H. Menk, F. Arfelli, and D. Sayers, "Diffraction enhanced X-ray imaging," Phys. Med. Biol. 42, 2015-2025 (1997).
9. P. C. Diemoz, P. Coan, C. Glaser, and A. Bravin, "Absorption, refraction and scattering in analyzer-based imaging: comparison of different algorithms," Opt. Express 18, 3494-3509 (2010).
10. M. Stampanoni, G. Borchert, R. Abela, and P. Rüegsegger, "Bragg magnifier: A detector for submicrometer X-ray computer tomography," J. Appl. Phys. 92, 7630-7635 (2002).
11. P. Modregger, D. Lübbert, P. Schäfer, and R. Köhler, "Two dimensional diffraction enhanced imaging algorithm," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 193501 (2007).
12. C. David, B. Nöhammer, H. H Solak, and E. Ziegler, "Differential X-ray phase contrast imaging using a shearing interferometer," Appl. Phys. Lett. 81 3287-3289 (2002).
13. A. Momose, S. Kawamoto, I. Koyama, Y. Hamaishi, K. Takai, and Y. Suzuki, "Demonstration of X-Ray Talbot interferometry," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 42, L866-L868 (2003).
14. T. Weitkamp, A. Diaz, C. David, F. Pfeiffer, M. Stampanoni, P. Cloetens, and E. Ziegler, "X-ray phase imaging with a grating interferometer," Opt. Express 13, 6296-6304 (2005).
15. F. Pfeiffer, O. Bunk, C. David, M. Bech, G. Le Duc, A. Bravin, and P. Cloetens, "High-resolution brain tumor visualization using three-dimensional X-ray phase contrast tomography," Phys. Med. Biol. 52, 6923-6930 (2007).
16. Z. Qi, J. Zambelli, N. Bevins and G.-H. Chen, "Quantitative imaging of electron density and effective atomic number using phase contrast CT," Phys. Med. Biol. 55, 2669-2677 (2010).
17. F. Pfeiffer, O. Bunk, C. Schulze-Briese, A. Diaz, T. Weitkamp, C. David, J. F. van der Veen, I. Vartanyants, and I. K. Robinson, "Shearing interferometer for quantifying the coherence of hard X-ray beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 164801 (2005).
18. Z.-T. Wang, K.-J. Kang, Z.-F. Huang, and Z.-Q. Chen, "Quantitative grating-based X-ray dark-field computed tomography," Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 094105 (2009).
19. M. Engelhardt, J. Baumann, M. Schuster, C. Kottler, F. Pfeiffer, O. Bunk, and C. David, "High-resolution differential phase contrast imaging using a magnifying projection geometry with a microfocus X-ray source," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 224101 (2007).
20. M. Engelhardt, C. Kottler, O. Bunk, C. David, C. G. Schroer, J. Baumann, M. Schuster, and F. Pfeiffer, "The fractional Talbot effect in differential X-ray phase-contrast imaging for extended and polychromatic X-ray sources," J. Microscopy 232, 145-157 (2008).
21. F. Pfeiffer, T. Weitkamp, O. Bunk, and C. David, "Phase retrieval and differential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance X-ray sources," Nat. Phys. 2, 258-261 (2006).
22. T. Donath, M. Chabior, F. Pfeiffer, O. Bunk, E. Reznikova, J. Mohr, E. Hempel, S. Popescu, M. Hoheisel, M. Schuster, J. Baumann, and C. David, "Inverse geometry for grating-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging," J. Appl. Phys. 106, 054703 (2009).
23. C. David, J. Bruder, T. Rohbeck, C. Grünzweig, C. Kottler, A. Diaz, O. Bunk, and F. Pfeiffer, "Fabrication of diffraction gratings for hard X-ray phase contrast imaging," Microelectron. Eng. 84, 1172-1177 (2007).
24. E. Reznikova, J. Mohr, M. Boerner, V. Nazmov, and P.-J. Jakobs, "Soft X-ray lithography of high aspect ratio SU8 submicron structures," Microsyst. Technol. 14, 1683-1688 (2008).
25. D. Noda, M. Tanaka, K. Shimada, W. Yashiro, A. Momose, and T. Hattori, "Fabrication of large area diffraction grating using LIGA process," Microsyst. Technol. 14, 1311-11315 (2008).
26. H. F. Talbot, "Facts relating to optical science. No. IV," Philos. Mag. 9, 401-407 (1836).
27. P. Cloetens, "Contribution to phase contrast imaging, reconstruction and tomography with hard synchrotron radiation: principles, implementation and applications," PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1999.
28. T. J. Suleski, "Generation of Lohmann images from binary-phase Talbot array illuminators," Appl. Opt. 36, 4686-4691 (1997).
29. M. Stampanoni, A. Groso, A. Isenegger, G. Mikuljan, Q. Chen, D. Meister, M. Lange, R. Betemps, S. Henein, and R. Abela, "TOMCAT: a beamline for tomographic microscopy and coherent radiology experiments," Synch. Rad. Instrum. 879, 848-851 (2007).
30. S. A McDonald, F. Marone, C. Hintermüller, G. Mikuljan, C. David, F. Pfeiffer, and M. Stampanoni, "Advanced phase-contrast imaging using a grating interferometer," J. Synch. Rad. 16, 562-572 (2009).
31. F. James, Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics 2nd ed. (World Scientific Publishing, 2006).
32. V. Revol, C. Kottler, R. Kaufmann, U. Straumann, and C. Urban, "Noise analysis of grating-based X-ray differential phase contrast imaging," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 073709 (2010)
33. A. Rack, T. Weitkamp, M. Riotte, D. Grigoriev, T. Rack, L. Helfen, T. Baumbach, R. Dietsch, T. Holz, M. Krämer, F. Siewert, M. Meduna, P. Cloetens, and E. Ziegler, "Comparative study of multilayers used in monochromators for synchrotron-based coherent hard X-ray imaging," J. Synch. Rad. 17, 496-510 (2010).
34. T. Weitkamp, C. David, C. Kottler, O. Bunk, and F. Pfeiffer, "Tomography with grating interferometers at low-brilliance sources," Proc. SPIE 6318, 63180S (2006).
35. R. Raupach and T. G. Flohr, "Analytical evaluation of the signal and noise propagation in X-ray differential phase-contrast computed tomography," Phys. Med. Biol. 56, 2219-2244 (2011).
36. M. Bech, "X-ray imaging with a grating interferometer," PhD thesis, University of Copenhagen (2009).
37. T. Weitkamp, I. Zanette, C. David, J. Baruchel, M. Bech, P. Bernard, H. Deyhle, T. Donath, J. Kenntner, S. Lang, J. Mohr, B. Müller, F. Pfeiffer, E. Reznikova, S. Rutishauser, G. Schulz, A. Tapfer, and J.-P. Valade, "Recent developments in X-ray Talbot interferometry at ESRF-ID19," Proc. SPIE 7804, 780406 (2010).
38. W. Yashiro, Y. Takeda, and A. Momose "Efficiency of capturing a phase image using cone-beam X-ray Talbot interferometry," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 25, 2025-2039 (2008).