PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING
    3.
    发明授权
    PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING 有权
    相位对比度成像

    公开(公告)号:EP2509501B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-21

    申请号:EP10798398.3

    申请日:2010-12-03

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00 G01N23/04

    摘要: X-ray devices for Phase Contrast Imaging (PCI) are often built up with the help of gratings. For large field-of-views (FOV), production cost and complexity of these gratings could increase significantly as they need to have a focused geometry. Instead of a pure PCI with a large FOV, this invention suggests to combine a traditional absorption X-ray-imaging system with large-FOV with an insertable low-cost PCI system with small-FOV, The invention supports the user to direct the PCI system with reduced FOV to a region that he regards as most interesting for performing a PCI scan thus eliminating X-ray dose exposure for scanning regions not interesting for a radiologist. The PCI scan may be generated on the basis of local tomography.

    PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING
    8.
    发明公开
    PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING 有权
    PHASENKONTRASTBILDGEBUNG

    公开(公告)号:EP2509501A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-17

    申请号:EP10798398.3

    申请日:2010-12-03

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00 G01N23/04

    摘要: X-ray devices for Phase Contrast Imaging (PCI) are often built up with the help of gratings. For large field-of-views (FOV), production cost and complexity of these gratings could increase significantly as they need to have a focused geometry. Instead of a pure PCI with a large FOV, this invention suggests to combine a traditional absorption X-ray-imaging system with large-FOV with an insertable low-cost PCI system with small-FOV, The invention supports the user to direct the PCI system with reduced FOV to a region that he regards as most interesting for performing a PCI scan thus eliminating X-ray dose exposure for scanning regions not interesting for a radiologist. The PCI scan may be generated on the basis of local tomography.

    摘要翻译: 用于相位对比成像(PCI)的X射线设备通常在光栅的帮助下构建。 对于大视野(FOV),这些光栅的生产成本和复杂性可能会因为需要聚焦几何而显着增加。 本发明不是采用具有较大FOV的纯PCI,而是将传统的吸收式X射线成像系统与大型FOV组合在一起,并具有可插入的具有小FOV的低成本PCI系统。本发明支持用户指导PCI 系统将FOV降低到他认为对于进行PCI扫描最有趣的区域,从而消除了对放射科医生不感兴趣的扫描区域的X射线剂量曝光。 PCI扫描可以在局部层析成像的基础上产生。

    CORRECTION METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING
    9.
    发明公开
    CORRECTION METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIAL PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING 有权
    校正算法微分相位衬度成像

    公开(公告)号:EP2442722A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-04-25

    申请号:EP10728349.1

    申请日:2010-06-10

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00 G01N23/04

    摘要: The present invention generally refers to a correction method for grating- based X-ray differential phase contrast imaging (DPCI) as well as to an apparatus which can advantageously be applied in X-ray radiography and tomography for hard X-ray DPCI of a sample object or an anatomical region of interest to be scanned. More precisely, the proposed invention provides a suitable approach that helps to enhance the image quality of an acquired X-ray image which is affected by phase wrapping, e.g. in the resulting Moiré interference pattern of an emitted X-ray beam in the detector plane of a Talbot-Lau type interferometer after diffracting said X-ray beam at a phase-shifting beam splitter grating. This problem, which is further aggravated by noise in the obtained DPCI images, occurs if the phase between two adjacent pixels in the detected X-ray image varies by more than
    π radians and is effected by a line integration over the object's local phase gradient,which induces a phase offset error of
    π radians that leads to prominent line artifacts parallel to the direction of said line integration.