Purpose: Biological soft tissues encountered in clinical and preclinical imaging mainly
consists of atoms of light elements with low atomic numbers and their elemental composition …

Hard x-ray tomography with Paganin's widespread single-distance phase retrieval filter
improves the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) while reducing spatial resolution (SR). We …

Phase-contrast x-ray computed tomography (CT) is an emerging imaging technique that can
be implemented at third generation synchrotron radiation sources or by using a microfocus x …

Phase-contrast x-ray computed tomography (PCCT) is currently investigated as an
interesting extension of conventional CT, providing high soft-tissue contrast even if …

In the case of single-distance propagation-based phase-contrast X-ray computed
tomography with synchrotron radiation, the conventional reconstruction pipeline includes an …

Single distance X-ray propagation-based phase-contrast imaging is considered as a simple
method compared to those requiring additional precise instruments and sophisticated …

X-ray phase contrast imaging holds great promise for improving the visibility of light-element
materials such as soft tissues and tumors. The single-mask differential phase contrast …

Phase contrast imaging (PCI) solves the basic limitation of x-ray imaging, ie, poor image
contrast resulting from small absorption differences. Up to now, it has been mostly limited to …

This study describes a new approach for material decomposition in x-ray imaging, utilizing
phase contrast both to increase sensitivity to weakly attenuating samples and to act as a …

Most existing differential phase-contrast computed tomography (DPC-CT) approaches are
based on three kinds of scanning geometries, described by parallel-beam, fan-beam and …