EuroNNAC and EuPRAXIA Workshop on Pilot Applications of Electron Plasma Accelerators (PAEPA)

Session

Imaging

11 Oct 2016, 14:30

Amphi Gregory (Ecole Polytechnique)

28. Medical imaging applications at innovative radiation sources

Alberto Bravin (ESRF)

11/10/2016, 14:30

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...

29. Prospective use of laser-driven sources for X-ray phase contrast imaging

Alessandro Olivo (University College London)

11/10/2016, 14:45

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...

30. Discussion on requirements for imaging

Roman Walczak (University of Oxford)

11/10/2016, 15:05