Soft-tissue phase-contrast tomography with an x-ray tube source.
We report the first experimental soft-tissue phase-contrast tomography results using a conventional x-ray tube source, with a millimeter-sized focal spot. The setup is based on a Talbot-Lau grating interferometer operated at a mean energy of 28 keV. We present three-dimensional ex vivo images of a chicken heart sample, fixated in formalin. The results clearly demonstrate the advantageous contrast attainable through phase-contrast imaging over conventional attenuation-based approaches.
Bech
Martin
M
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jensen
Torben H
TH
Feidenhans'l
Robert
R
Bunk
Oliver
O
David
Christian
C
Pfeiffer
Franz
F
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007368:Interferometry; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation*