Affiliations: Tongji University affiliated tenth people Hospital,
Shanghai 200072, China | Fudan University affiliated Zhongshan Hospital,
Shanghai 200032, China | Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of
High Energy Physics Beijing 100039, China
Abstract: To evaluate the value of phase contrast x-ray imaging (PCI) with a
synchrotron radiation (SR) source in which we performed hepatic imaging in the
4W1A beamline of Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility (BSRF). The hepatic
specimens from a SD mouse, a normal adult and a biliary cirrhosis patient were
imaged with the diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) technique. We showed that
the three grade vessel branches in the mouse, the hepatic lobule of the normal
adult and the enlarged bile ducts of the biliary cirrhosis patient could all be
clearly revealed with the DEI technique. Our results indicated that the PCI
techniques including DEI might improve hepatic imaging performance in spatial
resolution and tissue contrast.
