Regensburg 2010 – scientific programme
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ST: Fachverband Strahlen- und Medizinphysik
ST 3: Radiation Detectors and Imaging (Poster Session)
ST 3.3: Poster
Monday, March 22, 2010, 14:30–15:30, H41
Medical imaging with laser-driven x-ray sources — •Bernhard Müller1,2, Christoph Hoeschen1, Florian Grüner2, and Helmut Schlattl1 — 1Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Radiation Protection, Neuherberg, Germany — 2Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Department for Physics, Garching, Germany
Brilliant X-ray sources offer a variety of new possibilities in medical imaging. The development of laser-driven X-ray undulator sources will provide radiation with properties superior to that of conventional X-ray sources resulting in an optimized relation between image quality and applied dose. In addition to optimized absorbtion imaging new techniques are possible with these sources. The properties of laser-driven X-ray source with regard to medical imaging have been investigated and the process of image formation has been simulated with Monte-Carlo techniques. The first feasible applications lie in the field mammography and are therefore the main subject of the first investigations. These show the advantages of brilliant x-ray radiation in medical imaging and the application of imaging techniques like energy resolved imaging and coherent scatter imaging.