Simple phase extraction in x-ray differential phase contrast imaging

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/2/028704

Abstract

A fast and simple method to extract phase-contrast images from interferograms is proposed, and its effectiveness is demonstrated through simulation and experiment. For x-ray differential phase contrast imaging, a strong attenuation signal acts as an overwhelming background intensity that obscures the weak phase signal so that no obvious phase-gradient information is detectable in the raw image. By subtracting one interferogram from another, chosen at particular intervals, the phase signal can be isolated and magnified.

Keywords: x-ray imaging x-ray interferometry Talbot and self-imaging effects phase contrast imaging

Received: 14 September 2015
Revised: 12 October 2015
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PACS:	87.59.-e	(X-ray imaging)
	07.60.Ly	(Interferometers)
	42.30.Rx	(Phase retrieval)
	87.57.-s	(Medical imaging)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61101175, 61571305, and 61227802).

Corresponding Authors: Xin Liu
E-mail: sblx@szu.edu.cn

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Xin Liu(刘鑫), Jin-Chuan Guo(郭金川), Yao-Hu Lei(雷耀虎), Ji Li(李冀), Han-Ben Niu(牛憨笨) Simple phase extraction in x-ray differential phase contrast imaging 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 028704

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