title: Articular cartilage depicted at optimized angular position of Laue angular analyzer by X-ray dark-field imaging.
abstract: Using 36.0 keV X-ray from synchrotron radiation, we examined the optimized angular position of Laue analyzer for depicting articular cartilage of an intact human finger by X-ray dark-field imaging. The surface of articular cartilage was depicted clearly by adopting the offset angle of 0.04 arcsec to lower angular side to the analyzer whilst the contour of articular cartilage was delineated clearly at the other angular positions of the analyzer within the width of the rocking curve.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Oho 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan. shimao@ipu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shimao
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kunisada
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ando
mesh_terms: D016880:Anisotropy; D002102:Cadaver; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D017348:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D011859:Radiography; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction / Q000379:methods*