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ST: Fachverband Strahlen- und Medizinphysik
ST 2: Advances in X-Ray Imaging I
ST 2.3: Talk
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 15:40–16:00, H41
Influence of image processing on noise, sharpness and quantitativeness in grating-based phase-contrast imaging — •Mathias Marschner1, Marian Willner1, Dieter Hahn1, Alexander Hipp1, Julia Herzen3, Michael Chabior1,2, and Franz Pfeiffer1,2 — 1Physik Department, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany — 2Institute of Medical Engineering, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany — 3Institute of Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck-Str.1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Grating-based phase-contrast x-ray imaging provides additional contrast compared to regular absorption based x-ray imaging. The technique has been adapted to work with conventional x-ray tube sources and allows for quantitative imaging.
The choice of processing and tomographic reconstruction algorithms influences the image quality and quantitativeness of the computed tomography. We will present an overview of different methods for processing and CT-reconstruction (conventional and iterative) as well as subsequent filtering. The comparison focuses on noise, sharpness and quantitativeness using simple phantoms and biomedical samples measured at a grating interferometer equipped with a polychromatic x-ray tube and a photon counting detector.