In-line phase-contrast X-ray imaging and tomography for materials science

SC Mayo, AW Stevenson, SW Wilkins - Materials, 2012 - mdpi.com
X-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography make use of the refraction of X-rays by the
sample in image formation. This provides considerable additional information in the image …

X-ray imaging and analysis techniques for quantifying pore-scale structure and processes in subsurface porous medium systems

D Wildenschild, AP Sheppard - Advances in Water resources, 2013 - Elsevier
We report here on recent developments and advances in pore-scale X-ray tomographic
imaging of subsurface porous media. Our particular focus is on immiscible multi-phase fluid …

Interface-specific x-ray phase retrieval tomography of complex biological organs

MA Beltran, DM Paganin, KKW Siu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate interface-specific propagation-based x-ray phase retrieval tomography of
the thorax and brain of small animals. Our method utilizes a single propagation-based x-ray …

The past, present, and future of x-ray technology for in vivo imaging of function and form

A Fouras, MJ Kitchen, S Dubsky, RA Lewis… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Scientists and clinicians have a keen interest in studying not just the structure of
physiological systems, but their motion also, or more generally their form and function. This …

Computed tomographic x-ray velocimetry

S Dubsky, RA Jamison, SC Irvine, KKW Siu… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
An x-ray velocimetry technique is described which provides three components of velocity
measurement in three dimensional space. Current x-ray velocimetry techniques, which use …

Compressive x-ray phase tomography based on the transport of intensity equation

L Tian, JC Petruccelli, Q Miao, H Kudrolli, V Nagarkar… - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We develop and implement a compressive reconstruction method for tomographic recovery
of refractive index distribution for weakly attenuating objects in a microfocus x-ray system …

Dynamic tomography with a priori information

GR Myers, AM Kingston, TK Varslot, ML Turner… - Applied …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We present “dynamic tomography” algorithms that allow for the high-resolution, time-
resolved imaging of dynamic (ie, continuously time evolving) complex systems at existing x …

Image reconstruction exploiting object sparsity in boundary-enhanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography

EY Sidky, MA Anastasio, X Pan - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PCT) seeks to reconstruct information
regarding the complex-valued refractive index distribution of an object. In many applications …

Simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique based on guided image filtering

D Ji, G Qu, B Liu - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The challenge of computed tomography is to reconstruct high-quality images from few-view
projections. Using a prior guidance image, guided image filtering smoothes images while …

The discrete Radon transform: a more efficient approach to image reconstruction?

A Kingston, I Svalbe, JP Guédon - Developments in X-ray …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Radon transform and its inversion are the mathematical keys that enable tomography.
Radon transforms are defined for continuous objects with continuous projections at all …