Quantitative X-ray Phase Contrast Computed Tomography with Grating Interferometry : Biomedical Applications of Quantitative X-ray Grating-based Phase Contrast Computed Tomography

Overview

Journal Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging

Specialties Biophysics
Nuclear Medicine
Radiology

Date 2021 Apr 13

PMID 33846846

Citations 8

Authors

Lorenz Birnbacher

Eva-Maria Braig

Daniela Pfeiffer

Franz Pfeiffer

Julia Herzen

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Abstract

The ability of biomedical imaging data to be of quantitative nature is getting increasingly important with the ongoing developments in data science. In contrast to conventional attenuation-based X-ray imaging, grating-based phase contrast computed tomography (GBPC-CT) is a phase contrast micro-CT imaging technique that can provide high soft tissue contrast at high spatial resolution. While there is a variety of different phase contrast imaging techniques, GBPC-CT can be applied with laboratory X-ray sources and enables quantitative determination of electron density and effective atomic number. In this review article, we present quantitative GBPC-CT with the focus on biomedical applications.

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