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X-ray imaging has been the most important and widespread diagnostic tool in medicine over the last century. Despite its success, for example in imaging bone and dense structures, X-ray diagnostics reaches its limits in the examination of soft tissues, such as small tumours in healthy tissues, or in imaging lungs, vessels, or articular cartilage. Moreover, medical diagnostic imaging requires high contrast at low radiation dose: a condition that often limits the sensitivity of the method. In this scenario, the application to biomedical imaging of innovative methods using monochromatic or quasi monochromatic X-rays can open new diagnostic opportunities. These techniques have been developed at synchrotron radiation facilities and are ready to be exported at compact radiation sources. An overview of the most recent results obtained in microscopic will be presented and discussed.
