X-ray phase-contrast imaging: from pre-clinical applications towards clinics

A Bravin, P Coan, P Suortti - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Phase-contrast x-ray imaging (PCI) is an innovative method that is sensitive to the refraction
of the x-rays in matter. PCI is particularly adapted to visualize weakly absorbing details like …

Wavefront preserving X-ray optics for Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser photon beam transport systems

D Cocco, G Cutler, MS Del Rio, L Rebuffi, X Shi… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, after the first light from the new Free Electron Lasers, either in the
UV (FLASH [1] and FERMI@ Elettra [2]) or X-ray (LCLS [3] and SACLA [4]), more and more …

An outlook on x‐ray CT research and development

G Wang, H Yu, B De Man - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, computed tomography (CT) theory, techniques and applications have
undergone a rapid development. Since CT is so practical and useful, undoubtedly CT …

X-ray phase imaging with a paper analyzer

KS Morgan, DM Paganin, KKW Siu - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We present a simple x-ray phase imaging method that utilizes the sample-induced distortion
of a high contrast random intensity pattern to quantitatively retrieve the two-dimensional …

Speckle-based x-ray phase-contrast and dark-field imaging with a laboratory source

I Zanette, T Zhou, A Burvall, U Lundström, DH Larsson… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report on the observation and application of near-field speckles with a laboratory x-ray
source. The detection of speckles is possible thanks to the enhanced brilliance properties of …

State of the art of X-ray speckle-based phase-contrast and dark-field imaging

MC Zdora - Journal of Imaging, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the past few years, X-ray phase-contrast and dark-field imaging have evolved to be
invaluable tools for non-destructive sample visualisation, delivering information inaccessible …

X-ray multimodal imaging using a random-phase object

S Berujon, H Wang, K Sawhney - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2012 - APS
We demonstrate an extension of the x-ray grating interferometer three modal imaging
method to a generalized stepping scheme using a phase object with small, random features …

Single-shot x-ray differential phase-contrast and diffraction imaging using two-dimensional transmission gratings

HH Wen, EE Bennett, R Kopace, AF Stein, V Pai - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We describe an x-ray differential phase-contrast imaging method based on two-dimensional
transmission gratings that are directly resolved by an x-ray camera. X-ray refraction and …

Advanced phase-contrast imaging using a grating interferometer

SA McDonald, F Marone, C Hintermüller… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.iucr.org
Phase-sensitive X-ray imaging methods can provide substantially increased contrast over
conventional absorption-based imaging, and therefore new and otherwise inaccessible …

X-ray phase-contrast imaging and metrology through unified modulated pattern analysis

MC Zdora, P Thibault, T Zhou, FJ Koch, J Romell… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We present a method for x-ray phase-contrast imaging and metrology applications based on
the sample-induced modulation and subsequent computational demodulation of a random …