Improved signal-to-noise ratio in laboratory-based phase contrast tomography

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 399-405

  Boone, Matthieu N ^a   De Witte, Yoni ^a   Dierick, Manuel ^a   Almeida, Ana ^a   Van Hoorebeke, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CT; Bronnikov; image analysis; pharmaceutics; phase contrast; X ray refraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859123993     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927611012529     Document Type: Article

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