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Table 1 SNR values for all horizontal (h) and vertical (v) test objects in the phantom for the different phantom configurations 1 (without the additional bone-like absorber) and 2 (with the additional bone-like absorber) at different exposure times

From: Simultaneous wood and metal particle detection on dark-field radiography

SNR values for wooden and metallic objects in attenuation and dark-field

Attenuation

Phantom

Config 1

Config 2

Config 1

Config 2

Exposure (s)

5

1

2

5

1

2

Test objects

Wood

Aluminium

1 h

1.7

1.1

0

4.9

2.7

0

1 v

1.7

0

0

4.3

2.1

0

2 h

2.6

0

0

3.2

1.5

0

2 v

2.5

1.3

0

1.9

0

0

3 h

2.5

1.6

0

6.5

3.1

1.4

3 v

3.1

1.0

0

4.6

2.4

1.4

4 h

4.9

2.0

0

8.2

3.7

1.4

4 v

4.6

2.2

0

8.4

3.9

1.9

Dark-field

Phantom

Config 1

Config 2

Config 1

Config 2

Exposure (s)

5

1

2

5

1

2

Test objects

Wood

Aluminium

1 h

1.6

0

0

0

0

0

1 v

7.5

3.1

3.7

0

0

0

2 h

1.9

0

0

0

0

0

2 v

19.4

8.6

3.4

0

0

0

3 h

1.6

0

0

0

0

0

3v

18.7

8.7

3.8

0

0

0

4 h

3.3

1.6

0

0

0

0

4 v

25.2

11.4

5.4

0

0

0