2001 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 119-125
Recently, x-ray refraction contrast imaging has attracted great interest because it produces images of much higher contrast than that obtained with conventional x-ray imaging. The refraction contrast imaging is based on the refraction phenomenon of x-rays, which has long been considered to be negligible. Its point of excellence is that non-absorbing samples can be imaged clearly. In this paper, the principle of the refraction contrast imaging is briefly described, and some applications to still pictures using a laboratory x-ray source and to live pictures using synchrotron radiation of SPring-8 are presented.
