Open AccessMultiscale pink‐beam microCT imaging at the ESRF‐ID17 biomedical beamline
Author(s) -
Mittone Alberto,
Fardin Luca,
Di Lillo Francesca,
Fratini Michela,
Requardt Herwig,
Mauro Anthony,
Homs-Regojo Roberto Arturo,
Douissard Paul-Antoine,
Barbone Giacomo E.,
Stroebel Johannes,
Romano Mariele,
Massimi Lorenzo,
Begani-Provinciali Ginevra,
Palermo Francesca,
Bayat Sam,
Cedola Alessia,
Coan Paola,
Bravin Alberto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of synchrotron radiation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 99
ISSN - 1600-5775
DOI - 10.1107/s160057752000911x
Subject(s) - beamline , synchrotron , synchrotron radiation , optics , beam (structure) , advanced photon source , image resolution , tomographic reconstruction , physics , monochromatic color , medical physics , materials science , tomography
Recent trends in hard X‐ray micro‐computed tomography (microCT) aim at increasing both spatial and temporal resolutions. These challenges require intense photon beams. Filtered synchrotron radiation beams, also referred to as `pink beams', which are emitted by wigglers or bending magnets, meet this need, owing to their broad energy range. In this work, the new microCT station installed at the biomedical beamline ID17 of the European Synchrotron is described and an overview of the preliminary results obtained for different biomedical‐imaging applications is given. This new instrument expands the capabilities of the beamline towards sub‐micrometre voxel size scale and simultaneous multi‐resolution imaging. The current setup allows the acquisition of tomographic datasets more than one order of magnitude faster than with a monochromatic beam configuration.