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Dr. Matias Kagias receives the William H. F. Talbot Award 2017

Dr. Matias Kagias from the TOMCAT team at SLS is the recipient of the William H. F. Talbot Award 2017, as announced recently at the 4th XNPIG Conference (X-ray and Neutron Phase Contrast Imaging with Gratings) held in Zürich in September 12th-15th. The award is given to young PhD students for their outstanding contributions in the field of X-ray and Neutron Phase contrast imaging. This award has been introduced this year and Dr. Kagias is the first recipient ever.

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Dr. Goran Lovric receives 2nd best abstract prize at the 34th SSAI Congress

Goran Lovric, a Postdoc at TOMCAT and CIBM, received the Best abstract 2nd Prize at the 34th congress of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (SSAI) in Malmö (Sweden), 6-8th of September 2017. He presented the latest results of his work, entitled Spatial distribution of ventilator induced lung injury at the acinar level. An in-vivo synchrotron phase-contrast microscopy study in BALB/c mice.

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Carolina Arboleda presented a talk contribution at the Swiss Congress of Radiology (SCR2017) in Bern

Carolina Arboleda, senior PhD student at TOMCAT, presented a talk entitled “Assessment of breast lesion malignancy using phase contrast imaging” at the Swiss Congress of Radiology, which highlighted the potential of X-ray grating-based phase contrast imaging to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions utilizing the absorption to dark-field signal ratio of associated calcifications.

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Lucia Romano gives an invited talk at EIPBN 2017

Lucia Romano (guest professor at ETH and guest scientist at TOMCAT) has just returned from the largest conference devoted to electron, ion and photon beam technology and nanofabrication (EIPBN) in US, where she gave an invited talk about “Fabrication of high aspect ratio metal gratings for X-ray phase contrast interferometry”.

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New TOMCAT paper: The GigaFRoST camera and readout system

The PSI in-house developed GigaFRoST high-speed camera and readout system is available for fast imaging experiments at the TOMCAT beamline, opening up exciting new possibilities for the observation of fast dynamic phenomena with X-ray tomography.

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