Transmission and emission x-ray microscopy: operation modes, contrast mechanisms and applications

B Kaulich, P Thibault, A Gianoncelli… - Journal of Physics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Advances in microscopy techniques based on x-rays have opened unprecedented
opportunities in terms of spatial resolution, combined with chemical and morphology …

On the origin of visibility contrast in x-ray Talbot interferometry

W Yashiro, Y Terui, K Kawabata, A Momose - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
The reduction in visibility in x-ray grating interferometry based on the Talbot effect is
formulated by the autocorrelation function of spatial fluctuations of a wavefront due to …

Quantitative x-ray dark-field computed tomography

M Bech, O Bunk, T Donath, R Feidenhans… - Physics in Medicine …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The basic principles of x-ray image formation in radiology have remained essentially
unchanged since Röntgen first discovered x-rays over a hundred years ago. The …

Emphysema diagnosis using X-ray dark-field imaging at a laser-driven compact synchrotron light source

S Schleede, FG Meinel, M Bech… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
In early stages of various pulmonary diseases, such as emphysema and fibrosis, the change
in X-ray attenuation is not detectable with absorption-based radiography. To monitor the …

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 …

Noise analysis of grating-based x-ray differential phase contrast imaging

V Revol, C Kottler, R Kaufmann, U Straumann… - Review of Scientific …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The sensitivity of x-ray radiographic images, meaning the minimal detectable change in the
thickness or in the index of refraction of a sample, is directly related to the uncertainty of the …

X-ray phase-contrast methods

VV Lider, MV Kovalchuk - Crystallography Reports, 2013 - Springer
This review is devoted to a comparative description of the methods for forming X-ray phase-
contrast images of weakly absorbing (phase) objects. These include the crystal …

Directional x-ray dark-field imaging

TH Jensen, M Bech, O Bunk, T Donath… - Physics in Medicine …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a novel x-ray imaging approach that yields information about the local texture
of structures smaller than the image pixel resolution inside an object. The approach is based …

Multicontrast x‐ray computed tomography imaging using Talbot‐Lau interferometry without phase stepping

N Bevins, J Zambelli, K Li, Z Qi, GH Chen - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that multicontrast computed
tomography (CT) imaging can be performed using a Talbot‐Lau interferometer without …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray lithography for nanofabrication: is there a future?

A Bharti, A Turchet, B Marmiroli - Frontiers in Nanotechnology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
X-ray lithography has been first proposed almost 50 years ago, and the related LIGA
process around 25 years ago. It is therefore a good time to make an analysis of the …