title: Comment on 'A new method for fusion, denoising and enhancement of x-ray images retrieved from Talbot-Lau grating interferometry'.
abstract: In a recent paper (Scholkamm et al 2014 Phys. Med. Biol. 59 1425-40) we presented a new image denoising, fusion and enhancement framework for combining and optimal visualization of x-ray attenuation contrast, differential phase contrast and dark-field contrast images retrieved from x-ray Talbot-Lau grating interferometry. In this comment we give additional information and report about the application of our framework to breast cancer tissue which we presented in our paper as an example. The applied procedure is suitable for a qualitative comparison of different algorithms. For a quantitative juxtaposition original data would however be needed as an input.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neonatology, Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scholkmann
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Revol
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaufmann
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kottler
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio