Introduction: Teaching styles and methods have been constantly changing in the recent years. In the 1980s and 90s, the world was introduced to various developed devices, such as smart boards and early generation smart phones that had an immediate innovative effect on education. These advancements has resulted in a considerable improvement in the current educational techniques. The innovations i...

BACKGROUND Phase-contrast x-ray imaging using an x-ray interferometer has great potential to reveal the structures inside soft tissues, because the sensitivity of this method to hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen is approximately 1000 times higher than that of the absorption-contrast x-ray method. Imaging of vessels is very important to understand the vascular distribution of organs and tum...

According as the progress of medical technique, X-ray imaging systems have been progressed. Especially, X-ray CT imaging system have been improved and widely used as general diagnostic methods nowadays in Japan. However, the doses for patients of X-ray CT imaging are relatively higher than of other Xray examinations. The dose estimations and optimizations on X-ray CT are very important for medi...

Biomedical x-ray imaging has proven to be an indispensable component of many medical diagnostic and treatment techniques. Major technical advances over the years, culminating in helical scanning, multi slice, x-ray computed tomography, can now provide ∼ 0.5 mm resolution 3D images of the spatial distribution of tissue attenuation coefficients of an entire adult human thorax or abdomen. The util...

High energy X-ray imaging has unique advantage over conventional X-ray imaging, since it enables higher penetration into materials with significantly reduced radiation damage. However, the absorption contrast in high energy region is considerably low due to the reduced X-ray absorption cross section for most materials. Even though the X-ray phase and dark-field imaging techniques can provide su...