Phasecontrastimagingtechniquehasbeenimprovedpromptlyinrecentyears.Amongthesetechniquesin-linephase-contrastimagingiswidelyused.Variousalgorithmsforin-linephaseretrievalhavebeenproposedsofarsuchasTIE(transportofintensityequation),CTF(contrasttransferfunction),firstborn-approximations,GSF(Gerchberg-Saxton-Fienup),etc.Bronnikov'salgorithm(BA)isatypeoflinearalgorithmthatissimpleandefficient.Butitcanonlybeusedwithoutabsorptionsituations.Inthispaper,animprovedalgorithmbasedonBAwaspresented.TheapproachaddsΔφ(x,y)tothephasemapφ_b(x,y)retrievedbyBAtomakethereconstructedphasemapmoreprecise.Further,theapproachwasevaluatedonsimulatedimagesandconfirmedtobeaccurateathigherabsorptionrates.
