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Synchrotron Radiation Imaging of Breast Tissue Using a Phase-contrast Hard X-ray Microscope  

Jeong, Young-Ju (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
Bong, Jin-Gu (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
Park, Sung-Hwan (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.22, no.3, 2011 , pp. 117-123 More about this Journal
Abstract
Synchrotron radiation (SR) imaging enables us to observe internal structures of biologic samples without staining. In this study, we obtained X-ray microscopic images of human breast tissues with 11.1 KeV hard X-ray microscope of the Pohang light source and used zone plates and phase-contrast technique to get high resolution X-ray images. Hard X-ray microscopic images of fibrocystic change and breast cancer tissues with a spatial resolution of 60 nm were obtained and from these images, we could observe the micro-structures of human breast tissue. Also we analyzed and compared these images, which revealed distinct features of each condition. In conclusion, SR imaging with phase-contrast hard X-ray microscope for medical application, especially in breast disease can give some useful information for clinical research.
Keywords
Hard X-ray microscopic imaging; Phase-contrast; Synchrotron radiation; Breast imaging;
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