X-ray Tomography with Grating Interferometry (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

X-ray Tomography with Grating Interferometry

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Phase-contrast imaging is a technique for scanning the volumes of soft tissues like tumors or internal organs, but with much greater contrast than conventional CT scans. This image shows a non-invasive 'slice' of a rat's heart tissue made using grating-based X-ray phase tomography, which excels in contrast, albeit with some blurring when compared to propagation-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging (see image #1).

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Irene Zanette/Technische Universität München

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