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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

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

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…

We lay the foundations for a new fast method to reconstruct the electron density in x-ray scanning applications using measurements in the dark field. This approach is applied to a type of machine configuration with fixed energy sensitive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-08 James Webber

Background: X-ray dark-field radiography uses small-angle scattering to visualize the structural integrity of lung alveoli. To study the influence of dose reduction on clinical dark-field radiographs, one can simulate low-dose images by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Henriette Bast , Rafael C. Schick , Thomas Koehler , Franz Pfeiffer

Single-shot ptychography is a quantitative phase imaging method wherein overlapping beams of light arranged in a grid pattern simultaneously illuminate a sample, allowing a full ptychographic dataset to be collected in a single shot. It is…

X-ray single particle imaging involves the measurement of a large number of noisy diffraction patterns of isolated objects in random orientations. The missing information about these patterns is then computationally recovered in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Kartik Ayyer

Emerging methods of x-ray imaging that capture phase and dark-field effects are equipping medicine with complementary sensitivity to conventional radiography. These methods are being applied over a wide range of scales, from virtual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 T. A. Leatham , D. M. Paganin , K. S. Morgan

Dark-field imaging based on grating interferometry is an emerging X-ray modality in medical imaging, which is particularly capable of providing complementary diagnostic information by visualizing the microstructural properties of lung…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Longchao Men , Peiyuan Guo , Jincheng Lu , Yan Xu , Hongxia Yin , Zhenchang Wang , Li Zhang , Zhentian Wang

We introduce a structured illumination technique for dark-field x-ray microscopy optimized for three-dimensional imaging of ordered materials at sub-micrometer length scales. Our method utilizes a coded aperture to spatially modulate the…

In this paper, a new phase-retrieval algorithm from an X-ray schlieren image is proposed. The schlieren method allows phase-contrast imaging with an objective lens and a knife-edge filter placed at the back focal plane of the objective.…

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

A key contribution to X-ray dark-field (XDF) is X-ray diffusion by sample structures smaller than the imaging system's spatial resolution. However, some XDF techniques report that resolvable sample edges also generate XDF. Speckle-based…

Dual-energy imaging is a clinically well-established technique that offers several advantages over conventional X-ray imaging. By performing measurements with two distinct X-ray spectra, differences in energy-dependent attenuation are…

X-ray micro tomography is a non-destructive, three-dimensional inspection technique applied across a vast range of fields and disciplines, ranging from research to industrial, encompassing engineering, biology and medical research.…

Refractive Index Tomography is the inverse problem of reconstructing the continuously-varying 3D refractive index in a scene using 2D projected image measurements. Although a purely refractive field is not directly visible, it bends light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

We propose a technique capable of imaging a distinct physical object with sub-Rayleigh resolution in an ordinary far-field imaging setup using single-photon sources and linear optical tools only. We exemplify our method for the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-24 C. Thiel , T. Bastin , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

We propose an imaging system and methodology for mapping soft-tissue samples in three dimensions, with micron-scale and isotropic spatial resolution, with low-concentrations as well as in the absence of heavy metal staining. We used hard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-21 Michela Esposito , Nicole Schieber , Alessandro Olivo , Yannick Schwab , Marco Endrizzi

We develop a speckle-tracking method for x-ray phase-contrast imaging, based on the concept of geometric flow. This flow is a conserved current associated with deformation of illuminating x-ray speckles induced by passage through a sample.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 David M. Paganin , Helene Labriet , Emmanuel Brun , Sebastien Berujon

Dark-field X-ray imaging visualizes structural inhomogeneities through small-angle scattering, but existing directional methods are confined to the micrometer scale. While recent advances have extended dark-field capabilities to nanoscale…