Quantitative single-exposure x-ray phase contrast imaging using a single attenuation grid

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19781-19789

  Morgan, Kaye S ^a   Paganin, David M ^a   Siu, Karen K W ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH MAP; EX-VIVO; IN-VIVO; PHASE GRADIENT; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; REFERENCE GRIDS; SHACK-HARTMANN SENSOR; SHARP EDGES; SINGLE EXPOSURE; SMALL VARIATIONS; STATIC SAMPLES; VERTICAL COMPONENT; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; X RAY;

ABSORPTION; DIFFUSION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 80053259917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019781     Document Type: Article

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