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Phase contrast imaging is based on the refraction of the X-ray beam as it passes through the material and shows excellent results for biological tissues. In this presentation, we present a new approach for a Python algorithm that can filtrate phase contrast images (attenuation, phase, and scattering) and improve the identification of the interest object. The images used in this work were obtained with a 5.66 m long Talbot-Lau interferometer with a record angular sensitivity of 0.82 µradians, a phase stepping procedure of 16 steps, and a mean energy of 30 keV. The sample used was 0.89 mm diameter fiber from an accredited mammographic phantom. The proposed algorithm extracts the attenuation, phase, and scattering images from the dataset using Fast Fourier Transform. For filtration, we implemented a non-linear filter (median) to eliminate the noise generated by the acquisition system and the projection processing and to improve the contrast. The results were analyzed by calculation of the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR).
