Development of ultrafast laser-based x-ray in-vivo phase-contrast micro-CT beamline for biomedical applications at Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7078, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kincaid, Russell ^a   Krol, Andrzej ^a,b   Fourmaux, Sylvain ^c   Kieffer, Jean Claude ^c   Serbanescu, Cristina ^c   Servol, Marina ^c   Vogelsang, Levon ^a   Wilkins, Steve ^d   Stevenson, Andrew ^d   Nesterets, Yakov ^d   Lipson, Edward ^a   Ye, Hongwei ^a   Pogany, Andrew ^d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

In vivo micro CT; In line holography; Tumor imaging; Ultrafast laser based x ray source; X ray phase contrast imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER TESTING; DATA RECORDING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRON TUBES; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER RECORDING; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOLYBDENUM; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; TARGETS; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; VEGETATION; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

IN VIVO MICRO-CT; IN-LINE HOLOGRAPHY; TUMOR IMAGING; ULTRAFAST LASER-BASED X-RAY SOURCE; X-RAY PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 56249090009     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.795542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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