We demonstrate a single shot two-dimensional grating-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging using a synchrotron radiation source. A checkerboard designed phase grating for π phase modulation at 17 keV and 35 keV, and a lattice-shaped amplitude grating with a high aspect ratio to shield X-rays up to 35 keV were fabricated. A Fourier analysis of Moiré fringe generated by the gratings was introduced to obtain the two-dimensional differential phase-contrast image with a single exposure. The results show that soft tissues and cartilages of a chicken wing sample are clearly seen with differential phase variation in two-dimensional directions. Using this method not only the whole of an object but also only an inner part of the object can be imaged.
A Talbot-Lau interferometer using two-dimensional gratings and a conventional x-ray tube has been used to investigate a phase-contrast imaging technique that is sensitive to phase gradients in two orthogonal directions. Fourier analysis of Moiré fringe patterns was introduced to obtain differential phase images and scattering images from a single exposure. Two-dimensional structures of plastic phantoms and characteristic features of soft tissue were clearly obtained at 17.5 keV. The phase-stepping technique was also examined to investigate the spatial resolution of different phase retrieval methods. In the presented setup we found that the choice of phase retrieval method made little difference in image blur, and a large effective source size was found to give a high intensity in the image plane.
We have developed a sparse phase-stepping (SPS) method for x-ray Talbot-Lau interferometry, which first constructs a SPS intensity pattern of fewer images than the conventional phase-stepping (PS) method and then fills the data gap with neighboring pixels for phase retrieval. The SPS method is highly beneficial in practice since the fundamental difference in spatial resolution between the SPS and PS methods becomes negligible due to the blur caused by an interferometer. The concept of the SPS method has been proved by the experiment using a small effective source size. Furthermore, the experiment using a large effective source size has verified that in practical situations the SPS method can reduce the required number of images for phase retrieval and still offer the retrieved images with as high a spatial resolution as the PS method.
We developed a two-dimensional gratings-based X-ray interferometer that requires only a single exposure for clinical radiography. The interferometer consisted of a checkerboard phase grating for S phase modulation and a latticed amplitude grating. Using a synchrotron radiation source, the phase grating modulates the X-rays and generates a self-image, transformed to a moiré fringe by the amplitude grating. To allow use of a conventional X-ray tube, the latticed source grating was installed downstream from the X-ray tube. Differential phase-contrast and scattering images in two orthogonal directions were obtained by Fourier analysis of the single moiré fringe image and an absorption image. Results show that characteristic features of soft tissue in two orthogonal directions were clearly shown in the differential phase-contrast images.
A new phase demodulation approach is proposed that uses windowed Fourier transforms to achieve high spatial resolution in fringe pattern analysis with a high signal-to-noise ratio for single-shot X-ray grating-based interferometry. Conventionally, Fourier transforms have been used to demodulate single-fringe patterns, but this requires a fringe pattern with a long period to obtain an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio among the demodulated parameters. However, by controlling the signal-to-noise ratio, the spatial resolution of demodulated parameters is degraded below that obtained from the phase-stepping method, which requires several images to obtain these parameters. In this paper, we introduce the use of a windowed Fourier transform with a process for analyzing the objective spectrum in isolation from other spectra on the Fourier space to overcome the limitations of the Fourier transform method. It is proved that with suitable assumptions the objective spectrum is isolated theoretically, and the spatial resolution is improved by practically accepting the limitations from the assumptions. We demonstrate the validity of the proposed method by comparing the modulation transfer function of a synthetic phantom with the conventional FT method. The proposed method is also valid on practical data obtained by an experimental setup, by which it is demonstrated that a high spatial resolution with high signal-to-noise ratio can be achieved by our proposed method.
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