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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJBI</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>International Journal of Biomedical Imaging</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1687-4196</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1687-4188</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>Hindawi Publishing Corporation</publisher-name>
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        <article-id pub-id-type="other">827152</article-id>
        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1155/2008/827152</article-id>
        <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">827152</article-id>
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            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Research Article</subject>
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            <article-title>X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging with Three 2D Gratings</article-title>
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            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U53146768" corresp="yes">
                <name>
                    <surname>Jiang</surname>
                    <given-names>Ming</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>ming-jiang@ieee.org</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I1">
                    <sup>1, 2</sup>
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            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U81081923">
                <name>
                    <surname>Wyatt</surname>
                    <given-names>Christopher Lee</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>clwyatt@vt.edu</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I2">
                    <sup>2, 3</sup>
                </xref>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I3"/>
            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="author" id="U41031059">
                <name>
                    <surname>Wang</surname>
                    <given-names>Ge</given-names>
                </name>
                <email>wangg@vt.edu</email>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I2">
                    <sup>2, 3</sup>
                </xref>
                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="I3"/>
            </contrib>
            <contrib contrib-type="Academic Editor" id="U85051032">
                <name>
                    <surname>Zheng</surname>
                    <given-names>Yibin</given-names>
                </name>
            </contrib>
        </contrib-group>
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            <sup>1</sup>
            <addr-line>Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (LMAM)</addr-line>
            <addr-line>School of Mathematical Sciences</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Peking University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Beijing 100871</addr-line>
            <country>China</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">pku.edu.cn</ext-link>
        </aff>
        <aff id="I2">
            <sup>2</sup>
            <addr-line>Biomedical Imaging Division</addr-line>
            <addr-line>VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Blacksburg</addr-line>
            <addr-line>VA 24061</addr-line>
            <country>USA</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">vt.edu</ext-link>
        </aff>
        <aff id="I3">
            <sup>3</sup>
            <addr-line>Electrical and Computer Engineering Department</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Blacksburg</addr-line>
            <addr-line>VA 24061</addr-line>
            <country>USA</country>
            <ext-link ext-link-type="domain-name">vt.edu</ext-link>
        </aff>
        <pub-date pub-type="volume-year">
            <year>2008</year>
        </pub-date>
        <pub-date pub-type="archival-date">
            <day>24</day>
            <month>03</month>
            <year>2008</year>
        </pub-date>
        <volume>2008</volume>
        <history>
            <date date-type="received">
                <day>14</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2007</year>
            </date>
            <date date-type="accepted">
                <day>15</day>
                <month>12</month>
                <year>2007</year>
            </date>
        </history>
        
        <permissions>
    <copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
    <copyright-holder>Copyright &#x00A9; 2008 Ming Jiang et al.</copyright-holder>
    <license license-type="open-access"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the <ext-link xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license>
</permissions>
<abstract>

            <p>X-ray imaging is of paramount importance for clinical and preclinical imaging but it is fundamentally restricted by the attenuation-based contrast mechanism, which has remained essentially the same since Roentgen's discovery a century ago.  Recently, based on the Talbot effect, groundbreaking work was reported using 1D gratings for X-ray phase-contrast imaging with a hospital-grade X-ray tube instead of a synchrotron or microfocused source. In this paper, we report an extension using 2D gratings that reduces the imaging time and increases the accuracy and robustness of phase retrieval compared to current grating-based phase-contrast techniques. Feasibility is demonstrated via numerical simulation.</p>
        </abstract>
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            <award-group>
                <funding-source>National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China</funding-source>
                <award-id>2003CB716101</award-id>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809 National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
                <award-id>60325101</award-id>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809 National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
                <award-id>60532080</award-id>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809 National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
                <award-id>60628102</award-id>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002338 Ministry of Education of the People&#x2019;s Republic of China</funding-source>
                <award-id>306017</award-id>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>Engineering Research Institute of Peking University</funding-source>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004318 Microsoft</funding-source>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 National Science Foundation</funding-source>
                <award-id>DMR-0507083</award-id>
            </award-group>
            <award-group>
                <funding-source>http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000070 National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering</funding-source>
                <award-id>EB002667</award-id>
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