Estimation of presampling modulation transfer function in synchrotron radiation microtomography
✍ Scribed by Ryuta Mizutani; Keisuke Taguchi; Akihisa Takeuchi; Kentaro Uesugi; Yoshio Suzuki
- Book ID
- 103859486
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 529 KB
- Volume
- 621
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
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✦ Synopsis
The spatial resolution achieved by recent synchrotron radiation microtomographs should be estimated from the modulation transfer function (MTF) on the micrometer scale.
Step response functions of a synchrotron radiation microtomograph were determined by the slanted edge method by using highprecision surfaces of diamond crystal and ion-milled aluminum wire. Tilted reconstruction was introduced to enable any edge to be used as the slanted edge by defining the reconstruction pixel matrix in an arbitrary orientation. MTFs were estimated from the step response functions of the slanted edges. The obtained MTFs coincided with MTF values estimated from square-wave patterns milled on the aluminum surface. Although X-ray refraction influences should be taken into account to evaluate MTFs, any flat surfaces with nanometer roughness can be used to determine the spatial resolutions of microtomographs.