SYRMEP beamline: state of the art, upgrades and future prospects

E Longo, A Contillo, L D'Amico, M Prašek… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2024 - epjplus.epj.org
SYRMEP is the hard X-ray imaging beamline of Elettra synchrotron offering X-ray full-field
techniques, micro-computed tomography (microCT) and phase-contrast modality in the …

Anatomical study of the red flour beetle using synchrotron radiation X‐ray phase‐contrast micro‐tomography

ML Vommaro, S Donato, LK Lo… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Synchrotron X‐ray phase‐contrast microtomography (SR‐PhC micro‐CT) is well
established, fast and non‐destructive imaging technique for data acquisition that is currently …

Multiscale X-ray phase-contrast tomography: from breast CT to micro-CT for virtual histology

LMA Peña, S Donato, D Bonazza, L Brombal… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Phase-contrast imaging techniques address the issue of poor soft-tissue contrast
encountered in traditional X-ray imaging. This can be accomplished with the propagation …

Advancements towards the implementation of clinical phase-contrast breast computed tomography at Elettra

R Longo, F Arfelli, D Bonazza, U Bottigli… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Breast computed tomography (BCT) is an emerging application of X-ray tomography in
radiological practice. A few clinical prototypes are under evaluation in hospitals and new …

X-ray Fokker–Planck equation for paraxial imaging

DM Paganin, KS Morgan - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Fokker–Planck equation can be used in a partially-coherent imaging context to
model the evolution of the intensity of a paraxial x-ray wave field with propagation. This …

Phase-contrast breast CT: the effect of propagation distance

L Brombal, S Donato, D Dreossi, F Arfelli… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray phase imaging has the potential to dramatically improve soft tissue contrast sensitivity,
which is a crucial requirement in many diagnostic applications such as breast imaging. In …

Image quality comparison between a phase-contrast synchrotron radiation breast CT and a clinical breast CT: a phantom based study

L Brombal, F Arfelli, P Delogu, S Donato, G Mettivier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In this study we compared the image quality of a synchrotron radiation (SR) breast computed
tomography (BCT) system with a clinical BCT in terms of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) …

Integrating X-ray phase-contrast imaging and histology for comparative evaluation of breast tissue malignancies in virtual histology analysis

S Donato, LM Arana Peña, F Arfelli, L Brombal… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Detecting breast tissue alterations is essential for cancer diagnosis. However, inherent
bidimensionality limits histological procedures' effectiveness in identifying these changes …

Propagation‐based x‐ray phase‐contrast tomography of mastectomy samples using synchrotron radiation

TE Gureyev, YI Nesterets, PM Baran, ST Taba… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Propagation‐based phase‐contrast computed tomography (PB‐CT) is a method for
three‐dimensional x‐ray imaging that utilizes refraction, as well as absorption, of x rays in …

Single-shot x-ray speckle-based imaging of a single-material object

KM Pavlov, H Li, DM Paganin, S Berujon… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We develop a means for speckle-based phase imaging of the projected thickness of a single-
material object, under the assumption of illumination by spatially random time-independent x …