Figure 1

Schematic of a gbPC-CT setup.
From left to right: the X-ray source, the three gratings source, phase and analyser grating with their corresponding periods p0, p1 and p2 followed by the detector. The source grating is placed at distance s away from the source and the object is placed at distance r away from the source grating inducing a refraction angle of α, which is increased by a factor (l + s)/(r + s) taking into account the magnification of α by the distance from the object to the phase grating11. The figure is not to scale as in particular the refractive angle and grating periods are much smaller.