Non-absorption grating approach for X-ray phase contrast imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22669-22674

  Du, Yang ^a,b   Liu, Xin ^a   Lei, Yaohu ^a   Guo, Jinchuan ^a   Niu, Hanben ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; IMAGE QUALITY;

CCD DETECTORS; FIELD OF VIEWS; GRATING INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; X-RAY PHOTON ENERGY;

X RAYS;

EID: 80755143294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022669     Document Type: Article

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