Phase-contrast imaging and tomography at 60 keV using a conventional x-ray tube source

Rev Sci Instrum. 2009 May;80(5):053701. doi: 10.1063/1.3127712.

Abstract

Phase-contrast imaging at laboratory-based x-ray sources using grating interferometers has been developed over the last few years for x-ray energies of up to 28 keV. Here, we show first phase-contrast projection and tomographic images recorded at significantly higher x-ray energies, produced by an x-ray tube source operated at 100 kV acceleration voltage. We find our measured tomographic phase images in good agreement with tabulated data. The extension of phase-contrast imaging to this significantly higher x-ray energy opens up many applications of the technique in medicine and industrial nondestructive testing.

MeSH terms

  • Cell Phone
  • Interferometry
  • Microtechnology
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Tomography / instrumentation*
  • Tomography / methods*
  • X-Rays