Research towards high-repetition rate laser-driven X-ray sources for imaging applications

Goetzfried J, Doepp A, Gilljohann M, Ding H, Schindler S, Wenz J, Hehn L, Pfeiffer F, Karsch S (2018)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier

Book Volume: 909

Pages Range: 286-289

DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.110

Abstract

Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons represents a basis for several types of novel X-ray sources based on Thomson scattering or betatron radiation. The latter provides a high photon flux and a small source size, both being prerequisites for high-quality X-ray imaging. Furthermore, proof-of-principle experiments have demonstrated its application for tomographic imaging. So far this required several hours of acquisition time for a complete tomographic data set. Based on improvements to the laser system, detectors and reconstruction algorithms, we were able to reduce this time for a full tomographic scan to 3 min. In this paper, we discuss these results and give a prospect to future imaging systems.

Involved external institutions

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) DE Germany (DE) Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Goetzfried, J., Doepp, A., Gilljohann, M., Ding, H., Schindler, S., Wenz, J.,... Karsch, S. (2018). Research towards high-repetition rate laser-driven X-ray sources for imaging applications. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, 286-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.110

MLA:

Goetzfried, J., et al. "Research towards high-repetition rate laser-driven X-ray sources for imaging applications." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 909 (2018): 286-289.

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