Unwrapping differential x-ray phase-contrast images through phase estimation from multiple energy data

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 29101-29108

  Epple, F M ^a   Potdevin, G ^a   Thibault, P ^a   Ehn, S ^a   Herzen, J ^b   Hipp, A ^b   Beckmann, F ^b   Pfeiffer, F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST; ENERGY DISCRIMINATED; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE; PHASE ESTIMATION; PHASE UNWRAPPING APPROACHES; PHASE WRAPPING; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGE; TOMOGRAPHIC DATA;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

OPTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84890013077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.029101     Document Type: Article

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