The aim of 3D virtual histology is to overcome these limitations. 3D sample volumes can be acquired by different imaging techniques e.g. by computed tomography (CT). One advantage of this approach is that no mechanical slicing is required, hence avoiding the invasive destruction of the sample. In addition, the reconstructed 3D volume can be virtually sliced in arbitrary directions. The application of computed tomography to the sample sizes used in histology therefore results in 3D virtual his-far-field regime. Due to the high resolution of sub-50 nm in ptychography [Hol+19] and CDI [Brä+19], the resulting small field of views are unsuitable for 3D virtual histology.The achievable resolution of a few micrometer and the corresponding field of view of a few millimeter in GBI, SBI and PBI are more suitable for 3D virtual histology.The application to 3D virtual histology has been demonstrated in [Kim+20] for GBI, in [Zdo+20] for SBI and in [Fro+20a; Eck+20] for PBI. Of these three approaches PBI provides the highest spatial resolution [Zdo+20] and is therefore the subject of this work. The phase information is encoded in the measured intensity pattern, which is the square of the absolute value of the wavefield I = |ψ| 2 , obtained by constructive and destructive interference of the scattered wavefield and the primary wavefield. The recovery of the introduced phase shifts is an ill-posed inverse problem, which requires elaborate reconstruction schemes. Examples for such phase retrieval algorithms are: the popular Paganin single step approach based on the transportof-intensity equation (TIE) [Pag+02] for the edge-enhancement regime, the single step approach based on Contrast-Transfer-Function (CTF) for the holographic regime [Clo+99; Loh+20a] or iterative reconstruction schemes such as the Gerchberg-Saxton (GS), the Error-reduction (ER), the Hybrid-Input-Output (HIO) algorithm [Fie82], the relaxed averaged alternating reflections (RAAR) algorithm [Luk04] or a Tikhonov regularization-based approach [Huh+22]. The formation of an interference pattern by free space propagation is only possible with partially coherent X-rays. The partial spatial coherence of microfocus X-ray source is sufficient to enter the edge-enhancement regime (single fringe at the edges) in laboratories [Wil+96; TOH07; Bar+13]. Additional temporal coherence is required to obtain phase-contrast in the holographic regime (multiple interfering fringes) [Clo+99]. Such spatial and temporal coherence conditions are provided by synchrotron radiation. 3D virtual histology via X-ray phase-contrast is an established technique in the synchrotron community and realised at several beamlines e.g. ID19 (ESRF) [Wei+10; Cho+22b], TOMCAT (SLS) [Sta+10; Bor+21], ANATOMIX (SOLEIL) [Wei+17;Rod+21] and BM05 (ESRF) [Wal+21]. Although each setup differs in X-ray energy, monochromaticity (bending magnet/wiggler/undulator), covered object size or supported propagation distance, a rough differentiation between microtomography and nanotomography is reasonable. Microtomographic se...