Research

Here is a summary of the major research activities within the TOMCAT team. Click on a research category to know more about the topics and be directed to more detailed descriptions.

Synchrotron X-ray Tomography

• Heart Imaging Project
• Microstructural analysis of cardiac endomyocardial biopsies and full-thickness samples
• Dynamic high-resolution imaging of in-vitro beating heart preparations
• Sub-second X-ray tomographic microscopy of liquid water dynamics in polymer electrolyte fuel cells
• Fast and flexible reconstruction algorithms and workflows for high-throughput tomographic imaging
• Full-field hard x-ray phase contrast nanoscope
• Full-field XRF-CT
• Tomo-Rheoscopy
• Dynamic Phase-Contrast Microtomography of the Human Middle Ear

Translational X-ray Imaging

• X-ray Phase Contrast Mammography
• X-ray Phase Contrast Microtomography for Improved Pathology
• Grating-Interferometry-based Breast CT (GI-BCT)
• Grating-Interferometry-based Breast CT (GI-BCT): Iterative algorithm development
• Grating-Interferometry-based Breast CT (GI-BCT): Data-driven models for inverse problems
• X-ray Scattering Tensor Tomography
• X-ray Dual Phase Grating Interferometry: Dark-field imaging fuel cell catalyst
• X-ray Dual Phase Grating Interferometry: Microstructural characterization of building materials
• Monte Carlo simulation of X-ray grating interferometry systems

X-ray Optics Design and Fabrication

• Metal assisted chemical etching
• High-aspect-ratio gratings