X-ray phase-contrast imaging: from pre-clinical applications towards clinics

A Bravin, P Coan, P Suortti - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Phase-contrast x-ray imaging (PCI) is an innovative method that is sensitive to the refraction
of the x-rays in matter. PCI is particularly adapted to visualize weakly absorbing details like …

Phase-contrast x-ray imaging of the breast: recent developments towards clinics

P Coan, A Bravin, G Tromba - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Breast imaging is one of the most demanding and delicate radiological applications.
Mammography is the primary diagnosis tool in breast cancer detection and national …

Dual phase grating based x-ray differential phase contrast imaging with source grating: theory and validation

Y Ge, J Chen, P Zhu, J Yang, S Deng, W Shi… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we developed a new theoretical framework using wave optics to explain the
working mechanism of the grating based X-ray differential phase contrast imaging (XPCI) …

Fabrication of x-ray absorption gratings via micro-casting for grating-based phase contrast imaging

Y Lei, Y Du, J Li, Z Zhao, X Liu, J Guo… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Grating-based x-ray differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging has shown huge potential.
For broad applications, it is essential that the key components are low-cost, especially the …

Design optimization of a periodic microstructured array anode for hard x-ray grating interferometry

G Zan, DJ Vine, RI Spink, W Yun… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Talbot–Lau grating interferometer (TLGI) has great advantages in x-ray imaging contrasts,
especially for low-Z materials, over conventional absorption contrast. A microstructured array …

Cold Cathode Flat Panel X-ray Source for Talbot–Lau Grating Interferometer using Zinc Oxide Nanowire Field Emitter Arrays and Periodic Microstructured Anode

S Kang, G Qi, W Wu, C Wang, Y Xu… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The X-ray phase contrast imaging using a Talbot–Lau grating interferometer (GI) can
achieve high resolution of low-contrast objects such as soft tissues. The periodic …

Fabrication of ultra-high aspect ratio silicon grating using an alignment method based on a scanning beam interference lithography system

X Chen, S Jiang, Y Li, Y Jiang, W Wang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The high-aspect-ratio silicon grating (HARSG) is an important X-ray optical device that is
widely used in X-ray imaging and spectrum detection systems. In this paper, we propose a …

X-ray interferometry without analyzer for breast CT application: a simulation study

J Xu, K Ham, J Dey - Journal of Medical Imaging, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose: We investigate an analyzer-less x-ray interferometer with a spatially modulated
phase grating (MPG) that can deliver three modalities (attenuation image, phase image, and …

Acquisition of a single grid-based phase-contrast X-ray image using instantaneous frequency and noise filtering

JS Yang, SY Jeon, JH Choi - BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2022 - Springer
Background To obtain phase-contrast X-ray images, single-grid imaging systems are
effective, but Moire artifacts remain a significant issue. The solution for removing Moire …

Application of Bi absorption gratings in grating-based X-ray phase contrast imaging

Y Lei, Y Du, J Li, J Huang, Z Zhao, X Liu… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Among X-ray phase-contrast techniques, grating-based X-ray differential phase contrast
(DPC) imaging using conventional X-ray tube sources is the most prominent one for …