LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING

X-Rays: Wave or Particle — Enter the Dark-Field

Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging

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Welcome back to Medical Engineering. So today we want to talk a little bit about a new kind of modality. This is called X-ray phase-contrast imaging. So in the following video, we want to talk a bit about whether X-rays are particles or, waves. We’ll see that there are also wave characteristics that we can use to determine phase contrast and related contrasts. So looking forward to exploring a little bit more of X-ray physics with you guys.