| Issue |
EPL
Volume 83, Number 2, July 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 25002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/83/25002 | |
| Published online | 30 June 2008 | |
Phase-contrast imaging of a soft biological object using X-pinch as X-ray source
Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University - Beijing, 100084, China
Corresponding author: wangxx@tsinghua.edu.cn
Received:
25
April
2008
Accepted:
5
June
2008
The X-ray emission from an X-pinch was measured with diamond photoconducting detectors and a pinhole camera, and the results show that the X-ray source of the X-pinch is extremely small in size and high in brightness. As such, the X-pinch could be considered as an X-ray point source having a high spatial coherence that is required by a simplified scheme of X-ray phase-contrast imaging. The X-pinch was used as X-ray source for the phase-contrast imaging of a weakly X-ray-absorbing mosquito and an image with high contrast was obtained.
PACS: 52.58.Lq – Z-pinches, plasma focus, and other pinch devices / 52.59.Ye – Plasma devices for generation of coherent radiation
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