Multi-modal hard x-ray imaging with a laboratory source using selective reflection from a mirror

Daniele Pelliccia; David M Paganin

doi:10.1364/BOE.5.001153

Multi-modal hard x-ray imaging with a laboratory source using selective reflection from a mirror

Biomed Opt Express. 2014 Mar 12;5(4):1153-9. doi: 10.1364/BOE.5.001153. eCollection 2014 Apr 1.

Authors

Daniele Pelliccia¹, David M Paganin¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Physics, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia.

Abstract

Multi-modal hard x-ray imaging sensitive to absorption, refraction, phase and scattering contrast is demonstrated using a simple setup implemented with a laboratory source. The method is based on selective reflection at the edge of a mirror, aligned to partially reflect a pencil x-ray beam after its interaction with a sample. Quantitative scattering contrast from a test sample is experimentally demonstrated using this method. Multi-modal imaging of a house fly (Musca domestica) is shown as proof of principle of the technique for biological samples.

Keywords: (110.4190) Multiple imaging; (120.5050) Phase measurement; (120.5820) Scattering measurements; (170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (340.7440) X-ray imaging; (340.7470) X-ray mirrors.