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Paganin's method for image reconstruction in propagation-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging and tomography has enjoyed broad acceptance in recent years, with over one thousand publications citing its use. The present paper discusses…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Timur E. Gureyev , David M. Paganin , Ashkan Pakzad , Harry M. Quiney

Forward imaging technique is the base of combined method on density reconstruction with the forward calculation and inverse problem solution. In the paper, we introduced the projection equation for the radiographic system with areal source…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Jin Liu , Jun Liu , Yue-feng Jing , Bo Xiao , Cai-hua Wei , Yong-hong Guan , Xuan Zhang

Analyser-Based Phase-Contrast imaging (ABPCI) is a phase-contrast imaging method that produces high contrast images of weakly absorbing materials. However, it is only sensitive to phase variations lying in the diffraction plane of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 M. C. Chalmers , M. J. Kitchen , K. Uesugi , G. Falzon , P. Quin , K. M. Pavlov

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful non-invasive tool which is widely used in clinical routine. Mostly, apparent diffusion coefficient maps are acquired, which cannot be directly related to cellular structure. More recently it…

X-ray microtomography is a versatile tool allowing the measurement of the 3D structure of optically thick samples. As a non-destructive technique, it is readily adapted to 4D imaging, where a sample can be monitored over time, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-17 Harry Allan , Tom Partridge , Joseph Jacob , Marco Endrizzi

We previously demonstrated near-field speckle scanning based x-ray imaging to be an easy-to-implement phase sensing method capable of providing both high sensitivity and high resolution. Yet, this performance combination could only be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

X-ray phase contrast tomography (XPCT) is widely used for 3D imaging of objects with weak contrast in X-ray absorption index but strong contrast in refractive index decrement. To reconstruct an object imaged using XPCT, phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-23 K. Aditya Mohan , Dilworth Y. Parkinson , Jefferson A. Cuadra

The morphology of the extended $\gamma$-ray source is governed by the propagation process of parent relativistic particles. In this paper, we investigate the surface brightness radial profile of extended $\gamma$-ray sources illuminated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-10 Rui-zhi Yang , Bing Liu

Purpose: Grating-based imaging (GBI) and edge-illumination (EI) are two promising types of XPCI as the conventional x-ray sources can be directly utilized. For GBI and EI systems, the phase-stepping acquisition with multiple exposures at a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Chengpeng Wu , Yuxiang Xing , Li Zhang , Zhiqiang Chen , Xiaohua Zhu , Xi Zhang , Hewei Gao

Experimentally measured characteristics of a kHz laser-driven Cu plasma X-ray source that was recently commissioned at ELI Beamlines facility are reported. The source can be driven either by an in-house developed high contrast sub-20 fs…

Ptychography is a promising phase retrieval technique for visible light, X-ray and electron beams. Conventional ptychography reconstructs the amplitude and phase of an object light from a set of the diffraction intensity patterns obtained…

Obtaining 3D information from a single X-ray exposure at high-brilliance sources, such as X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) [1] or diffraction-limited storage rings [2], allows the study of fast dynamical processes in their native…

Single-shot coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) using intense XUV and soft X-ray pulses holds the promise to deliver information on the three dimensional shape as well as the optical properties of nano-scale objects in a single diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Paul Tuemmler , Julia Apportin , Thomas Fennel , Christian Peltz

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is a label-free computational imaging technique used in various fields, including biology and medical research. Modern QPI systems typically rely on digital processing using iterative algorithms for phase…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-28 Yuhang Li , Yi Luo , Deniz Mengu , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

The following paper describes a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of multi-material objects based on propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast tomography (PB-CT) with phase retrieval using the homogenous form of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Darren Thompson , Yakov I. Nesterets , Konstantin M. Pavlov , Timur Gureyev

Features of forward diffracted Parametric X-Radiation (PXR) were investigated at experiments with the 855 MeV electron beam of the Mainz Microtron MAMI employing a 410 micrometer thick tungsten single crystal. Virtual photons from the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Backe , W. Lauth , A. F. Scharafutdinov , P. Kunz , A. S. Gogolev , A. P. Potylitsyn

We have developed a 3 dimensional Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI) algorithm to retrieve phases of diffraction patterns of samples in Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) experiments. The algorithm interprets the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-26 Yi Yang , Sunil K. Sinha

One of the most powerful approaches to imaging at the nanometer or subnanometer length scale is coherent diffraction imaging using X-ray sources. For amorphous (non-crystalline) samples, the raw data can be interpreted as the modulus of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Alexander Barnett , Charles L. Epstein , Leslie Greengard , Jeremy Magland

This paper presents a new method to model X-ray scattering on random rough surfaces. It combines the approaches we presented in two previous papers -- \zs\cite{zhao03} \& \pz\cite{zhao15}. An actual rough surface is (incompletely) described…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Ping Zhao

X-ray imaging is a rapid and cost-effective tool for visualizing internal human anatomy. While multi-view X-ray imaging provides complementary information that enhances diagnosis, intervention, and education, acquiring images from multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Chun Xie , Yuichi Yoshii , Itaru Kitahara