Diffraction enhanced imaging utilizing different crystal reflections at Elettra and NSLS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 255-266

  Rigon, Luigi ^a,b   Zhong, Zhong ^c   Arfelli, Fulvia ^a,b   Menk, Ralf Hendrik ^d   Pillon, Alessandra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffraction Enhanced Imaging; Mammography; Phase Imaging; Synchrotron Radiation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION ENHANCED IMAGING (DEI);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036032082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465567     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. R. Fitzgerald, "Phase sensitive X-ray imaging", Phys. Today 53, pp. 23-26, 2000.
2. T.J. Davis, D. Gao, T.E. Gureyev et al., "Phase-contrast imaging of weakly absorbing materials using hard X-rays", Nature 373, pp. 595-598, 1995.
3. V.N. Ingal and E.A. Beliaevskaya, "X-ray plane-wave topography observation of the phase-contrast from a noncrystalline object", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 28, pp. 2314-2317, 1995.
4. A. Momose, "Demonstration of phase-contrast x-ray computed-tomography using an x-ray interferometer", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 352, pp. 622-628, 1995.
5. A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, V. Kohn et al., "On the possibilities of x-ray phase contrast microimaging by coherent high-energy synchrotron radiation", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66, pp. 5486-5492, 1995.
6. S.W. Wilkins, T.E. Gureyev, D. Gao et al., "Phase-contrast imaging using polychromatic hard X-rays", Nature 384, pp. 335-338, 1996.
7. P. Cloetens, R. Barrett, J. Baruchel et al., "Phase objects in synchrotron radiation hard x-ray imaging", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 29, pp. 133-146, 1996.
8. D. Chapman, W. Thomlinson, R.E. Johnston, et al., "Diffraction enhanced x-ray imaging", Phys. Med Biol. 42, pp. 2015-2025, 1997.
9. th edition 1999.
10. R. Caciuffo, S. Melone, F. Rustichelli and A. Boeuf, "Monochromators for x-ray synchrotron radiation", Phys. Reports 152, pp. 1-71, 1987.
11. D. Chapman, E. Pisano, W. Thomlinson et al., "Medical applications of Diffraction Enhanced imaging", Breast Disease 10, pp. 197-207, 1998.
12. E.D. Pisano, R.E. Johnston, D. Chapman et al. "Human breast cancer specimens: Diffraction-enhance imaging with histologic correlation - Improved conspicuity of lesion detail compared with digital radiography", Radiology 214, pp. 895-901, 2000.
13. F. Arfelli, V. Bonvicini, A. Bravin, et al. "Mammography with synchrotron radiation: Phase-detection techniques", Radiology 215, pp. 286-293, 2000.
14. Z. Zhong, "Using a Prism to Reject or Select Harmonic Reflections in an X-ray Monochromator", J. Appl. Cryst. 33, pp. 1082-1087, 2000.
15. F. Arfelli, G. Barbiellini, V. Bonvicini et al., "The digital mammography program at the SR light source in Trieste", IEEE T. Nucl. Sci. 44, pp. 2395-2399, 1997.
16. Z. Zhong, W. Thomlinson, D. Chapman, D. Sayers, "Implementation of diffraction-enhanced imaging experiments: at the NSLS and APS", Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 450, pp. 556-567, 2000.
17. D. Chapman, W. Thomlinson, F. Arfelli et al., "Mammography imaging studies using a Lane crystal analyzer", Rev. Sci. Instr. 67, pp. 1-5, 1996.
18. D.R. Dance, "Diagnostic radiology with X-rays", in The Physics of Medical Imaging, edited by S. Webb, pp. 20-73, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, 1988.
19. M.Z. Kiss, D.E. Sayers and Z. Zhong, "Measurement of image contrast using diffraction enhanced imaging", in preparation.
20. H. Aichinger et al., "Image quality and dose in mammography", Electromedica 62, pp. 7-11, 1994.
21. A. Pillon, Immagini digitali con luce di sincrotrone ottenute mediante cristallo analizzatore, Thesis, Univ. Trieste, 1999-2000.
22. C. Schulze and D. Chapman, "PEPO: A Program for the calculation of the reflectivity of cylindrically bent Laue crystal monochromators", Rev. Sci. Instr. 66, pp. 2220-2223, 1995.