Experimental validation of image contrast correlation between ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering and grating-based dark-field imaging using a laser-driven compact X-ray source

Photonics and Lasers in Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-50

  Bech, Martin ^a   Schleede, Simone ^a   Potdevin, Guillaume ^a   Achterhold, Klaus ^a   Pfeiffer, Franz ^a   Bunk, Oliver ^b   Jensen, Torben H ^c   Loewen, Rod ^d   Ruth, Ron ^e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LYNCEAN TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

dark field; inverse Compton; phase contrast; X ray

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872672669     PISSN: 21930635     EISSN: 21930643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/plm-2011-0012     Document Type: Article

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