Investigation of discrete imaging models and iterative image reconstruction in differential X-ray phase-contrast tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10724-10749

  Xu, Qiaofeng ^a   Sidky, Emil Y ^b   Pan, Xiaochuan ^b   Stampanoni, Marco ^c,e   Modregger, Peter ^c,d   Anastasio, Mark A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TISSUE;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGING MODEL; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PROJECTION DATA; RADON TRANSFORM; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TISSUE SPECIMENS; TOMOGRAPHIC; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

RADON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADON; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 84861167209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010724     Document Type: Article

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