Benchtop X-ray Fluorescence Microtomography Based Polycapillary

X-Ray Fluorescence Microtomography in Biological Applications

X-ray fluorescence microtomography on a SiC nuclear fuel shell

TRISO fuel particles, used in high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR) are composite structures with a nuclear fuel kernel surrounded by alternating layers designed to contain fission products and compensate for radiation damage. As shown in Figure 1, a typical fuel particle contains an inner kernel of nuclear fuel, a low-density buffer layer of pyrocarbon, a dense layer of pyrocarbon coatin...

Fast X-Ray Fluorescence Microtomography of Hydrated Biological Samples

Metals and metalloids play a key role in plant and other biological systems as some of them are essential to living organisms and all can be toxic at high concentrations. It is therefore important to understand how they are accumulated, complexed and transported within plants. In situ imaging of metal distribution at physiological relevant concentrations in highly hydrated biological systems is...

Polycapillary X-ray optics for microdiffraction

Polycapillary optics, i.e. shaped arrays consisting of hundreds of thousands of hollow glass capillary tubes, can be used to redirect, collimate or focus X-ray beams. X-rays emitted over a large angular range from conventional laboratory-based sources can be transformed into a beam with a small angular divergence or focused onto a small sample or sample area. Convergent beams of X-rays, with co...

X-ray microtomography of materials

shapes. destructively and with spatial resolution which can approach that of optical microscopy (typically, no After presenting the author’s perspective of the better than 1 mm in samples whose cross-sectional development of microtomography, imaging, X-ray diameter is on the order of 1 mm, and 10 mm for attenuation, and the physical concepts underlying 10 mm specimens). First, X-ray computed to...