Fig. 8: Schematic illustrating the imaging procedure and experimental setup of beamline BL13HB at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. | Communications Biology

Fig. 8: Schematic illustrating the imaging procedure and experimental setup of beamline BL13HB at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

From: Multiscale X-ray phase-contrast CT unveils the evolution of bile infarct in obstructive biliary disease

Fig. 8

In this experimental setup, parallel X-rays are derived from a 3.5-GeV electron storage ring and are monochromatized by a double silicon 111-crystal system. The monochromatic synchrotron beam is projected onto a sample fixed on a rotation platform, which can be rotated 180° to acquire the projection images of the sample at different angles; then, the transmitted beam is recorded by an image detector and displayed by the image acquisition system. Finally, the stack of CT sections and the 3D reconstruction of liver tissues are obtained through image postprocessing. Except for the photograph of the line station and the collected images of the sample, all other image elements were generated by Microsoft PowerPoint.

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