Paper
31 March 2016 Construction and evaluation of a high-energy grating-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging setup
Christian Hauke, Florian Horn, Georg Pelzer, Jens Rieger, Sebastian Lachner, Veronika Ludwig, Maria Seifert, Max Schuster, Johannes Wandner, Andreas Wolf, Thomas Weber, Thilo Michel, Gisela Anton
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
Interferometric x-ray imaging becomes more and more attractive for applications such as medical imaging or non-destructive testing, because it provides the opportunity to obtain additional information on the internal structure of radiographed objects.12 Therefore, three types of images are acquired: An attenuation image like in conventional x-ray imaging, an image of the differential phase-shift generated by the object and the so called dark-field image, which contains information about the object’s granularity even on sub-pixel scale.3 However, most experiments addressing grating-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging with polychromatic sources are restricted to energies up to about 40 keV. For the application of this imaging method to thicker objects like human specimens or dense components, higher tube voltages are required. This is why we designed and constructed a laboratory setup for high energies, which is able to image larger objects.4 To evaluate the performance of the setup, the mean visibility of the field of view was measured for several tube voltages. The result shows that the mean visibility has a peak value of 23% at a tube voltage of 60 kV and is constantly greater than 16% up to a tube voltage of 120 kV. Thus, good image quality is provided even for high energies. To further substantiate the performance of the setup at high energies, a human ex-vivo foot was examined at a tube voltage of 75 kV. The interferometric x-ray images show a good image quality and a promising diagnostic power.
© (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Christian Hauke, Florian Horn, Georg Pelzer, Jens Rieger, Sebastian Lachner, Veronika Ludwig, Maria Seifert, Max Schuster, Johannes Wandner, Andreas Wolf, Thomas Weber, Thilo Michel, and Gisela Anton "Construction and evaluation of a high-energy grating-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging setup", Proc. SPIE 9783, Medical Imaging 2016: Physics of Medical Imaging, 97835F (31 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216879
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
Visibility

X-ray imaging

X-rays

Image quality

Interferometry

Sensors

Signal attenuation

RELATED CONTENT


Back to Top