AUTHOR=Zhu Xiaohua , Wu Chengpeng , Gao Hewei , Zhang Xi , Zhang Li 

TITLE=Visibility of Polychromatic Grating-Based X-Ray Imaging Systems Based on Wave-Optical Theories and Frequency Domain Analysis

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.630337

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2021.630337

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=Grating-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging and CT, applicable with traditional polychromatic X-ray tubes, has shown great potential for future applications of imaging with multimodal information indicating material and microstructure simultaneously. The parameters and performance of the grating system could be simulated by a wave-optical simulation framework, proved feasible for design and optimization of both coherent and incoherent gratings systems. However, the simulation involves real-space point-wise calculation of Fourier transformation, and the direct expression of the relationship of the parameters was absent. In this work, we analyzed the Fourier domain characteristics of the simulated system and the presented visibility of the system of different energy in an analytical form. The derived direct expression which omitted the simulation process, was validated with results of both simulation and real experiments, and may help future design, optimization and study of the energy-resolved characteristics of the system.