Multicontrast x-ray computed tomography imaging using Talbot-Lau interferometry without phase stepping

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 424-428

  Bevins, Nicholas ^a   Zambelli, Joseph ^a   Li, Ke ^a   Qi, Zhihua ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; moire; phase contrast; phase stepping

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DATA ACQUISITION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETERS; PHANTOMS; REFRACTION; X RAYS;

MOIRE; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHASE STEPPING; PHASE-STEPPING TECHNIQUE; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETER; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETRY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84855446783     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3672163     Document Type: Article

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