2026 Franz Pfeiffer: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	83	2751	2617	249	238	502	30937

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Physics

2751

2617

249

238

502

30937

Overview

Franz Pfeiffer is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Within these broad disciplines, their work is concentrated on several subfields including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiation, Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's main research topics include Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging, Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Radiation Dose and Imaging, X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, and Nuclear Physics and Applications.

Franz Pfeiffer has contributed to numerous publications, with visible activity in scientific venues such as:

Scientific Reports
arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
European Radiology Experimental
Radiology

Highlighted recent papers authored or co-authored by Franz Pfeiffer include:

X-ray dark-field chest imaging for detection and quantification of emphysema in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a diagnostic accuracy study, 2021, The Lancet Digital Health
Dark-field computed tomography reaches the human scale, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
X-ray Dark-Field Chest Imaging: Qualitative and Quantitative Results in Healthy Humans, 2021, Radiology
The versatile X-ray beamline of the Munich Compact Light Source: design, instrumentation and applications, 2020, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
X-ray phase tomography with near-field speckles for three-dimensional virtual histology, 2020, Optica

Frequent collaborators of Franz Pfeiffer include Daniela Pfeiffer, Julia Herzen, Thomas Koehler, Klaus Achterhold, and Martin Dierolf. They have worked together extensively, reflecting active collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

Phase retrieval and differential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance X-ray sources

Franz Pfeiffer;Timm Weitkamp;Oliver Bunk;Christian David

2217
Citations
X-ray phase imaging with a grating interferometer.

Timm Weitkamp;Ana Diaz;Christian David;Franz Pfeiffer

1461
Citations
High-Resolution Scanning X-ray Diffraction Microscopy

Pierre Thibault;Martin Dierolf;Andreas Menzel;Oliver Bunk

1408
Citations
Hard-X-ray dark-field imaging using a grating interferometer

Franz Pfeiffer;Franz Pfeiffer;Martin Bech;Oliver Bunk;Philipp Kraft

1287
Citations
Hard-X-Ray Lensless Imaging of Extended Objects

J. M. Rodenburg;A. C. Hurst;A. G. Cullis;B. R. Dobson

1017
Citations
Ptychographic X-ray computed tomography at the nanoscale

Martin Dierolf;Andreas Menzel;Pierre Thibault;Philipp Schneider

1005
Citations
Probe retrieval in ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging.

Pierre Thibault;Martin Dierolf;Martin Dierolf;Oliver Bunk;Andreas Menzel

746
Citations
X-ray ptychography

Franz Pfeiffer

548
Citations
Hard X-Ray Phase Tomography with Low-Brilliance Sources

F. Pfeiffer;C. Kottler;O. Bunk;C. David

468
Citations
The microstructure and micromechanics of the tendon-bone insertion

L. Rossetti;L. A. Kuntz;E. Kunold;J. Schock

374
Citations
Influence of the overlap parameter on the convergence of the ptychographical iterative engine.

Oliver Bunk;Martin Dierolf;Martin Dierolf;Søren Kynde;Ian Johnson

317
Citations
Efficient Deep Network Architectures for Fast Chest X-Ray Tuberculosis Screening and Visualization.

F. Pasa;V. Golkov;F. Pfeiffer;D. Cremers

302
Citations
Fabrication of diffraction gratings for hard X-ray phase contrast imaging

C. David;J. Bruder;T. Rohbeck;C. Grünzweig

295
Citations
Quantitative biological imaging by ptychographic x-ray diffraction microscopy

Klaus Giewekemeyer;Pierre Thibault;Sebastian Kalbfleisch;André Beerlink

265
Citations
Neutron Phase Imaging and Tomography

F. Pfeiffer;C. Grünzweig;O. Bunk;G. Frei

262
Citations
High-resolution brain tumor visualization using three-dimensional x-ray phase contrast tomography

F Pfeiffer;F Pfeiffer;O Bunk;C David;M Bech

257
Citations
Quantitative x-ray dark-field computed tomography

M Bech;O Bunk;T Donath;R Feidenhans'l

247
Citations
A two-directional approach for grating based differential phase contrast imaging using hard x-rays.

C. Kottler;C. David;F. Pfeiffer;O. Bunk

220
Citations
Two-dimensional x-ray waveguides and point sources.

F. Pfeiffer;C. David;M. Burghammer;C. Riekel

215
Citations
Ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging of weakly scattering specimens

Martin Dierolf;Pierre Thibault;Andreas Menzel;Cameron M Kewish

214
Citations