Phase-contrast X-ray tomography using Teagues method

Abstract

We investigate a variant of the reconstruction technique for the in-line X-ray phase-contrast tomography data. This technique uses a newly introduced quantity, which represents a particular combination of the real and imaginary parts of the complex refractive index n. This quantity coincides with the real part of (1-n) in the case of objects having negligible absorption. The advantage of the proposed approach is in the significantly simplified form of the reconstruction algorithm for the introduced quantity. As demonstrated by our numerical experiments, the newly introduced quantity can be predictably associated with a particular refractive index. ©2012 Optical Society of America.