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X-ray dark-field imaging creates a representation of the sample where contrast is generated by subresolution features within the volume under inspection. These are detected by a local measurement of the radiation field's angular…

Directional dark-field imaging is an emerging x-ray modality that is sensitive to unresolved anisotropic scattering from sub-pixel sample microstructures. A single-grid imaging set-up can be used to capture dark-field images by looking at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Michelle K Croughan , Ying Ying How , Allan Pennings , Kaye S Morgan

X-ray dark-field imaging visualises scattering from sample microstructure, and has found application in medical and security contexts. While most X-ray dark-field imaging techniques rely on masks, gratings, or crystals, recent work on the…

Sensitive to scattering from unresolved sample structures, the dark-field channel in full-field X-ray imaging provides complementary information to that offered by conventional attenuation and phase-contrast methods. A range of experimental…

Dark-field X-ray imaging is a novel modality which visualises scattering from unresolved microstructure. Most dark-field imaging techniques rely on crystals or structured illumination, but recent work has shown that dark-field effects are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Jannis N. Ahlers , Konstantin M. Pavlov , Marcus J. Kitchen , Kaye S. Morgan

X-ray imaging, traditionally relying on attenuation contrast, struggles to differentiate materials with similar attenuation coefficients like soft tissues. X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) and dark-field (DF) imaging provide enhanced…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Jingcheng Yuan , Mini Das

Dark-field imaging is widely used to infer fibre orientation from signal modulation as a function of sample orientation. However, current X-ray dark-field retrieval methods are restricted to single orientations and require tomography to…

In recent years, a novel x-ray imaging modality has emerged that reveals unresolved sample microstructure via a "dark-field image", which provides complementary information to conventional "bright-field" images, such as attenuation and…

X-ray phase contrast imaging holds great promise for improving the visibility of light-element materials such as soft tissues and tumors. Single-mask differential phase contrastnimaging method stands out as a simple and effective approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Jingcheng Yuan , Mini Das

A method for extracting the dark-field signal in propagation-based phase-contrast imaging is proposed. In the case of objects consisting predominantly of a single material, or several different materials with similar ratios of the real…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 T. E. Gureyev , D. M. Paganin , B. Arhatari , S. T. Taba , S. Lewis , P. C. Brennan , H. M. Quiney

X-ray diffusive dark-field imaging, which allows spatially unresolved microstructure to be mapped across a sample, is an increasingly popular tool in an array of settings. Here, we present a new algorithm for phase and dark-field computed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 T. A. Leatham , D. M. Paganin , K. S. Morgan

Dark-field images are formed by small-angle scattering of x-ray photons. The small-angle scattering signal is particularly sensitive to structural variations and density fluctuation on a length scale of several ten to hundred nanometers,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 W. Cong , F. Pfeiffer , M. Bech , O. Bunk , C. David , G. Wang

The size of the smallest detectable sample feature in an x-ray imaging system is usually restricted by the spatial resolution of the system. This limitation can now be overcome using the diffusive dark-field signal, which is generated by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Ying Ying How , David M. Paganin , Kaye S. Morgan

While diffusion-based image restoration (IR) methods have achieved remarkable success, they are still limited by the low inference speed attributed to the necessity of executing hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Learning a dense 3D model with fine-scale details from a single facial image is highly challenging and ill-posed. To address this problem, many approaches fit smooth geometries through facial prior while learning details as additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Xingyu Ren , Alexandros Lattas , Baris Gecer , Jiankang Deng , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Stefanos Zafeiriou

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

X-ray dark-field or ultra-small angle scatter imaging has become increasingly important since the introduction of phase-based x-ray imaging and is having transformative impact in fields such as in vivo lung imaging and explosives detection.…

Complex-field imaging is indispensable for numerous applications at wavelengths from X-ray to THz, with amplitude describing transmittance (or reflectivity) and phase revealing intrinsic structure of the target object. Coherent diffraction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Meng Li , Liheng Bian , Guoan Zheng , Andrew Maiden , Yang Liu , Yiming Li , Qionghai Dai , Jun Zhang

Machine learning is attracting surging interest across nearly all scientific areas by enabling the analysis of large datasets and the extraction of scientific information from incomplete data. Data-driven science is rapidly growing,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Sung Yun Lee , Do Hyung Cho , Chulho Jung , Daeho Sung , Daewoong Nam , Sangsoo Kim , Changyong Song

Phase-contrast and dark-field imaging are relatively new X-ray imaging modalities that provide additional information to conventional attenuation-based imaging. However, this new information comes at the price of a more complex acquisition…

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