Franz Pfeiffer, Oliver Bunk, Martin Brecht (Coherent Scattering Group, Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut) and Christian David (X-Ray Optics and Applications Group, Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institut) have carried out first test experiments to evaluate the performance of the PILATUS 100K detector system for medical imaging purposes.

X-ray images of a test sample (chicken wing) have been recorded in the conventional absorption mode and in a recently developed novel hard X-ray phase-contrast imaging mode [1].

The noiseless acquisition and the excellent point-spread function lead to a very high image quality and show the good usability of the PILATUS 100K detector system also for this kind of application.

Publications:
[1] F. Pfeiffer, T. Weitkamp, O. Bunk, and C. David. Phase retrieval and differential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance X-ray source. Nature Physics 2, 258–261 (2006).