title: Statistical properties of X-ray phase-contrast tomography.
abstract: Quantitative in-line X-ray phase-contrast tomography methods seek to reconstruct separate images that depict an object's absorption and real-valued refractive index distributions. They hold great promise for biomedical applications due to their ability to distinguish soft tissue structures based on their complex X-ray refractive index values. In this work, we investigate the second-order statistical properties of images in phase-contrast tomography and describe how they are distinct from those associated with conventional absorption-based tomography.
authors: Department of Bio-Industrial Mecha-tronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. chengying@ntu.edu.tw
authors: Cheng-Ying
authors: CY
authors: Chou
authors: Mark A
authors: MA
authors: Anastasio
mesh_terms: D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*