Speaker
Alessandro Olivo
(University College London)
Description
X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) methods have emerged that can potentially transform all areas where x-ray imaging is used - medical and not. XPCI is historically associated with stringent coherent requirements which means it has been mostly implemented at synchrotron facilities; however, the use of laser-based plasma sources could transform this. Although there are now totally incoherent approaches to XPCI such as the "edge illumination" method pioneered at UCL, sources with higher brilliance and coherence would still be beneficial in terms of speeding up acquisitions (allowing e.g. dynamical studies) and increasing image quality.
