[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in X-ray imaging of breast tissue: From two-to three-dimensional imaging

L Heck, J Herzen - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a globally widespread disease whose detection has already been
significantly improved by the introduction of screening programs. Nevertheless …

Microfabrication of X-ray optics by metal assisted chemical etching: A review

L Romano, M Stampanoni - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
High-aspect-ratio silicon micro-and nanostructures are technologically relevant in several
applications, such as microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems, sensors …

Metal assisted chemical etching of silicon in the gas phase: A nanofabrication platform for X-ray optics

L Romano, M Kagias, J Vila-Comamala… - Nanoscale …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
High aspect ratio nanostructuring requires high precision pattern transfer with highly
directional etching. In this work, we demonstrate the fabrication of structures with ultra-high …

Towards clinical grating-interferometry mammography

C Arboleda, Z Wang, K Jefimovs, T Koehler… - European …, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Grating-interferometry-based mammography (GIM) might facilitate breast cancer
detection, as several research works have demonstrated in a pre-clinical setting, since it is …

Towards the fabrication of high-aspect-ratio silicon gratings by deep reactive ion etching

Z Shi, K Jefimovs, L Romano, M Stampanoni - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The key optical components of X-ray grating interferometry are gratings, whose profile
requirements play the most critical role in acquiring high quality images. The difficulty of …

High‐Aspect‐Ratio Grating Microfabrication by Platinum‐Assisted Chemical Etching and Gold Electroplating

L Romano, J Vila-Comamala… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Diffractive optics play a key role in hard X‐rays imaging for which many scientific,
technological, and biomedical applications exist. Herein, high‐aspect‐ratio microfabrication …

High sensitivity X-ray phase contrast imaging by laboratory grating-based interferometry at high Talbot order geometry

J Vila-Comamala, L Romano, K Jefimovs, H Dejea… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
X-ray phase contrast imaging is a powerful analysis technique for materials science and
biomedicine. Here, we report on laboratory grating-based X-ray interferometry employing a …

Pushing the limits of bottom-up gold filling for X-ray grating interferometry

D Josell, Z Shi, K Jefimovs, L Romano… - Journal of The …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The application of superconformal Bi-catalyzed Au electrodeposition for void-free filling of
recessed trenches in X-ray gratings used in phase contrast imaging is detailed. Filling of …

Towards sub-micrometer high aspect ratio X-ray gratings by atomic layer deposition of iridium

J Vila-Comamala, L Romano, V Guzenko… - Microelectronic …, 2018 - Elsevier
X-ray grating interferometry is an excellent technique for X-ray phase contrast imaging and X-
ray wavefront sensing with applications in materials science, biology and medical diagnosis …

Advanced X-ray imaging technology

D Pfeiffer, F Pfeiffer, E Rummeny - Molecular Imaging in Oncology, 2020 - Springer
Since their discovery by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895, X-rays have become the most
widely available, typically fastest, and usually most cost-effective medical imaging modality …