Hard-X-ray dark-field imaging using a grating interferometer

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作者
Pfeiffer, F. [1 ,2 ]
Bech, M. [3 ]
Bunk, O. [1 ]
Kraft, P. [1 ]
Eikenberry, E. F. [1 ]
Broennimann, Ch. [1 ]
Gruenzweig, C. [1 ]
David, C. [1 ]
机构
[1] Paul Scherrer Inst, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
[2] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[3] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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10.1038/nmat2096
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Imaging with visible light today uses numerous contrast mechanisms, including bright-and dark-field contrast, phase-contrast schemes and confocal and fluorescence-based methods(1). X-ray imaging, on the other hand, has only recently seen the development of an analogous variety of contrast modalities. Although X-ray phase-contrast imaging could successfully be implemented at a relatively early stage with several techniques(2)-(11), dark-field imaging, or more generally scattering-based imaging, with hard X-rays and good signal-to-noise ratio, in practice still remains a challenging task even at highly brilliant synchrotron sources(12-18). In this letter, we report a new approach on the basis of a grating interferometer that can efficiently yield dark-field scatter images of high quality, even with conventional X-ray tube sources. Because the image contrast is formed through the mechanism of small-angle scattering, it provides complementary and otherwise inaccessible structural information about the specimen at the micrometre and submicrometre length scale. Our approach is fully compatible with conventional transmission radiography and a recently developed hard-X-ray phase-contrast imaging scheme(11). Applications to X-ray medical imaging, industrial non-destructive testing and security screening are discussed.
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