[Phase-contrast x-ray imaging with x-ray interferometer for medical applications]

Igaku Butsuri. 2002;22(1):30-7.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Phase-contrast x-ray imaging with x-ray interferometer can depict the minute difference within the biological object, and its sensitivity is about 1000 times higher than that of absorption-contrast method. For biomedical use of this technique, a large monolithic x-ray interferometer and 2 crystal interferometer having a field of view with 25 mm x 25 mm is being developed. Phase-contrast x-ray CT could reveal detail structures within tumor and surrounded tissue, and the vessel imaging of rat liver is also possible using physiological saline at 17.7 keV x-ray energy. Recently, human breast tissues were imaged at 35 keV and the contrast of image was much better than usual absorption contrast x-ray image obtained at 17.7 keV energy.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Mammography / instrumentation
  • Mammography / methods
  • Radiation Dosage
  • Radiographic Image Enhancement / instrumentation*
  • Radiographic Image Enhancement / methods
  • Rats
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / instrumentation
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods