A tilted grating interferometer for full vector field differential x-ray phase contrast tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 24890-24896

  Rutishauser, Simon ^a   Donath, Tilman ^a,b   David, Christian ^a   Pfeiffer, Franz ^c   Marone, Federica ^a   Modregger, Peter ^a,d   Stampanoni, Marco ^a,e  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b DECTRIS LTD   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE; GRADIENT COMPONENT; GRATING STRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; X-RAY GRATING INTERFEROMETERS; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY TUBE SOURCE;

INTERFEROMETERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82955180956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024890     Document Type: Article

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