Beam hardening effects in grating‐based x‐ray phase‐contrast imaging

M Chabior, T Donath, C David, O Bunk… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: In this work, the authors investigate how beam hardening affects the image
formation in x‐ray phase‐contrast imaging and consecutively develop a correction algorithm …

Noise in x‐ray grating‐based phase‐contrast imaging

T Weber, P Bartl, F Bayer, J Durst, W Haas… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Grating‐based x‐ray phase‐contrast imaging is a fast developing new modality not
only for medical imaging, but as well for other fields such as material sciences. While these …

Analytical and experimental determination of signal-to-noise ratio and figure of merit in three phase-contrast imaging techniques

PC Diemoz, A Bravin, M Langer, P Coan - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present a theoretical and experimental comparison of three X-ray phase-contrast
techniques: propagation-based imaging, analyzer-based imaging and grating …

A grating‐based single‐shot x‐ray phase contrast and diffraction method for in vivo imaging

EE Bennett, R Kopace, AF Stein, H Wen - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a single‐shot version of the grating‐based
phase contrast x‐ray imaging method and demonstrate its capability ofin vivo animal …

Low-dose, simple, and fast grating-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging

P Zhu, K Zhang, Z Wang, Y Liu, X Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Phase sensitive X-ray imaging methods can provide substantially increased contrast over
conventional absorption-based imaging and therefore new and otherwise inaccessible …

Phase unwrapping in spectral X-ray differential phase-contrast imaging with an energy-resolving photon-counting pixel detector

FM Epple, S Ehn, P Thibault, T Koehler… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grating-based differential phase-contrast imaging has proven to be feasible with
conventional X-ray sources. The polychromatic spectrum generally limits the performance of …

Contributions to the characterization of grating-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging

M Chabior - 2011 - osti.gov
In this work, a characterization and optimization of the grating-based X-ray imaging
technique is presented. The investigations are introduced by analytical considerations, are …

Inverse geometry for grating-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging

T Donath, M Chabior, F Pfeiffer, O Bunk… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Phase-contrast imaging using conventional polychromatic x-ray sources and grating
interferometers has been developed and demonstrated for x-ray energies up to 60 keV …

Noise properties of grating‐based x‐ray phase contrast computed tomography

T Köhler, K Jürgen Engel, E Roessl - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To investigate the properties of tomographic grating‐based phase contrast
imaging with respect to its noise power spectrum and the energy dependence of the …

An experimental method of determining relative phase‐contrast factor for x‐ray imaging systems

X Wu, H Liu - Medical physics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The relative phase‐contrast factor (RPF) represents a quantitative measure of the phase‐
contrast transfer in x‐ray in‐line phase‐contrast imaging. The larger the modulus of is, the …