Preliminary performance measurements from a second generation diffraction enhanced imaging system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Connor, Dean M ^a   Cole, Elodia B ^a   Zhong, Zhong ^b   Parham, Christopher A ^c   Pisano, Etta D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

analyzer based imaging; DEI; diffraction enhanced imaging; phase contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER CRYSTALS; ANALYZER-BASED IMAGING; DEI; DIFFRACTION-ENHANCED IMAGING; GENERATION SYSTEMS; HIGH-POWER; IMAGE CONTRASTS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PHASE CONTRAST X-RAY IMAGING; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING; PHOTON COUNTING; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SECOND GENERATION; SOFT TISSUE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84860363211     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.913280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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