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Multimodal hard X-ray imaging of a mammography phantom at a compact synchrotron light source

Schleede, Simone ; Bech, Martin LU orcid ; Achterhold, Klaus ; Potdevin, Guillaume ; Gifford, Martin ; Loewen, Rod ; Limborg, Cecile ; Ruth, Ronald and Pfeiffer, Franz (2012) In Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 19. p.525-529
Abstract
The Compact Light Source is a miniature synchrotron producing X-rays at the interaction point of a counter-propagating laser pulse and electron bunch through the process of inverse Compton scattering. The small transverse size of the luminous region yields a highly coherent beam with an angular divergence of a few milliradians. The intrinsic monochromaticity and coherence of the produced X-rays can be exploited in high-sensitivity differential phase-contrast imaging with a grating-based interferometer. Here, the first multimodal X-ray imaging experiments at the Compact Light Source at a clinically compatible X-ray energy of 21 keV are reported. Dose-compatible measurements of a mammography phantom clearly demonstrate an increase in... (More)
The Compact Light Source is a miniature synchrotron producing X-rays at the interaction point of a counter-propagating laser pulse and electron bunch through the process of inverse Compton scattering. The small transverse size of the luminous region yields a highly coherent beam with an angular divergence of a few milliradians. The intrinsic monochromaticity and coherence of the produced X-rays can be exploited in high-sensitivity differential phase-contrast imaging with a grating-based interferometer. Here, the first multimodal X-ray imaging experiments at the Compact Light Source at a clinically compatible X-ray energy of 21 keV are reported. Dose-compatible measurements of a mammography phantom clearly demonstrate an increase in contrast attainable through differential phase and dark-field imaging over conventional attenuation-based projections. (Less)
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medical X-ray imaging, phase contrast, inverse Compton X-rays
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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
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19
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525 - 529
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International Union of Crystallography
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  • scopus:84862687357
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1600-5775
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10.1107/S0909049512017682
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English
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  author       = {{Schleede, Simone and Bech, Martin and Achterhold, Klaus and Potdevin, Guillaume and Gifford, Martin and Loewen, Rod and Limborg, Cecile and Ruth, Ronald and Pfeiffer, Franz}},
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  publisher    = {{International Union of Crystallography}},
  series       = {{Journal of Synchrotron Radiation}},
  title        = {{Multimodal hard X-ray imaging of a mammography phantom at a compact synchrotron light source}},
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