Phase contrast imaging with coherent high energy X-rays
- ESRF, Grenoble (France)
X-ray imaging concern high energy domain (>6 keV) like a contact radiography, projection microscopy and tomography is used for many years to discern the features of the internal structure non destructively in material science, medicine and biology. In so doing the main contrast formation is absorption that makes some limitations for imaging of the light density materials and what is more the resolution of these techniques is not better than 10-100 {mu}m. It was turned out that there is now way in which to overcome 1{mu}m or even sub-{mu}m resolution limit except phase contrast imaging. It is well known in optics that the phase contrast is realised when interference between reference wave front and transmitted through the sample take place. Examples of this imaging are: phase contrast microscopy suggested by Zernike and Gabor (in-line) holography. Both of this techniques: phase contrast x-ray microscopy and holography are successfully progressing now in soft x-ray region. For imaging in the hard X-rays to enhance the contrast and to be able to resolve phase variations across the beam the high degree of the time and more importantly spatial coherence is needed. Because of this it was reasonable that the perfect crystal optics was involved like Bonse-Hart interferometry, double-crystal and even triple-crystal set-up using Laue and Bragg geometry with asymmetrically cut crystals.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 525909
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-40112; CONF-9608146-; ON: DE97005928; TRN: 97:015069
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Workshop on x-ray computed microtomography (CMT), Berkeley, CA (United States), 12-13 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the workshop on high resolution computed microtomography (CMT); PB: 437 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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