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Biomedical X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging and Tomography

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This chapter reviews the main categories of methods that have been developed for preclinical and clinical imaging applications . The methods covered here are all based on geometric magnification by the projection of a cone beam emitted from a pseudopoint source, without the use of a lens or other types of focusing optics. These methods share the common goal of detecting x-ray refraction and diffraction, in order to complement the conventional attenuation contrast information in radiography and computed tomography.

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Wen, H. (2019). Biomedical X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging and Tomography. In: Hawkes, P.W., Spence, J.C.H. (eds) Springer Handbook of Microscopy. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00069-1_30

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