Moiré Artifact Reduction in Grating Interferometry Using Multiple Harmonics and Total Variation Regularization

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Main Authors: Meyer, Hunter C., Dey, Joyoni, Dooley, Conner B., Taqi, Murtuza S., Gala, Varun R., Morrison, Christopher D., Fontenot, Victoria L., Ham, Kyungmin, Butler, Leslie G., Noel, Alexandra
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author Meyer, Hunter C.
Dey, Joyoni
Dooley, Conner B.
Taqi, Murtuza S.
Gala, Varun R.
Morrison, Christopher D.
Fontenot, Victoria L.
Ham, Kyungmin
Butler, Leslie G.
Noel, Alexandra
author_facet Meyer, Hunter C.
Dey, Joyoni
Dooley, Conner B.
Taqi, Murtuza S.
Gala, Varun R.
Morrison, Christopher D.
Fontenot, Victoria L.
Ham, Kyungmin
Butler, Leslie G.
Noel, Alexandra
contents X-ray interferometry is an emerging imaging modality with a wide variety of potential clinical applications, including lung imaging. A grating interferometer uses a diffraction grating to produce a periodic interference pattern and measures how a patient or sample perturbs the pattern, producing three unique images that highlight X-ray absorption, refraction, and small angle scattering, known as the attenuation, differential-phase, and dark-field images, respectively. Inaccuracies in grating position and multi-harmonic fringes produce Moiré artifacts when assuming the fringe pattern is perfectly sinusoidal and the phase steps are evenly spaced. We have developed an image recovery algorithm that estimates the true phase stepping positions using multiple harmonics and total variation regularization, removing the Moiré artifacts present in the attenuation, differential-phase, and dark-field images. We demonstrate the algorithm's utility for the Talbot-Lau and Modulated Phase Grating Interferometers by imaging multiple samples, including PMMA microspheres and a euthanized mouse.
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spellingShingle Moiré Artifact Reduction in Grating Interferometry Using Multiple Harmonics and Total Variation Regularization
Meyer, Hunter C.
Dey, Joyoni
Dooley, Conner B.
Taqi, Murtuza S.
Gala, Varun R.
Morrison, Christopher D.
Fontenot, Victoria L.
Ham, Kyungmin
Butler, Leslie G.
Noel, Alexandra
Optics
Medical Physics
X-ray interferometry is an emerging imaging modality with a wide variety of potential clinical applications, including lung imaging. A grating interferometer uses a diffraction grating to produce a periodic interference pattern and measures how a patient or sample perturbs the pattern, producing three unique images that highlight X-ray absorption, refraction, and small angle scattering, known as the attenuation, differential-phase, and dark-field images, respectively. Inaccuracies in grating position and multi-harmonic fringes produce Moiré artifacts when assuming the fringe pattern is perfectly sinusoidal and the phase steps are evenly spaced. We have developed an image recovery algorithm that estimates the true phase stepping positions using multiple harmonics and total variation regularization, removing the Moiré artifacts present in the attenuation, differential-phase, and dark-field images. We demonstrate the algorithm's utility for the Talbot-Lau and Modulated Phase Grating Interferometers by imaging multiple samples, including PMMA microspheres and a euthanized mouse.
title Moiré Artifact Reduction in Grating Interferometry Using Multiple Harmonics and Total Variation Regularization
topic Optics
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16503