Evaluation and optimization of multimodal X-ray imaging techniques for inverse Compton X-ray sources

摘要

Inverse Compton scattering of infrared photons from relativistic electrons generates brilliant quasi-monochromaticX-rays with an electron accelerator with dimensions of only a few meters, e.g. at the storage ring based inverseCompton scattering X-ray source employed at the Munich Compact Light Source. Availability of synchrotronlight in a laboratory comes along with broader access to synchrotron techniques, especially in - but not limited to{ clinical imaging and pre-clinical biomedical applications. We have been exploring the latter in daily user operationsince commissioning of the MuCLS. So far, the focus has been on dynamic in vivo small-animal respiratoryimaging, grating-based phase-contrast imaging, e.g. for quantitative material decomposition, and spectroscopicimaging, e.g. for angiography.