Bone cartilage imaging with x-ray interferometry using a practical x-ray tube

Kazuhiro Kido; Chiho Makifuchi; Junko Kiyohara; Tsukasa Itou; Chika Honda; Atsushi Momose

doi:10.1117/12.843655

23 March 2010 Bone cartilage imaging with x-ray interferometry using a practical x-ray tube

Kazuhiro Kido, Chiho Makifuchi, Junko Kiyohara, Tsukasa Itou, Chika Honda, Atsushi Momose

Proceedings Volume 7622, Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging; 76224O (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843655
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design an X-ray Talbot-Lau interferometer for the imaging of bone cartilage using a practical X-ray tube and to develop that imaging system for clinical use. Wave-optics simulation was performed to design the interferometer with a practical X-ray tube, a source grating, two X-ray gratings, and an X-ray detector. An imaging system was created based on the results of the simulation. The specifications were as follows: the focal spot size was 0.3 mm of an X-ray tube with a tungsten anode (Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan). The tube voltage was set at 40 kVp with an additive aluminum filter, and the mean energy was 31 keV. The pixel size of the X-ray detector, a Condor 486 (Fairchild Imaging, California, USA), was 15 μm. The second grating was a Ronchi-type grating whose pitch was 5.3 μm. Imaging performance of the system was examined with X-ray doses of 0.5, 3 and 9 mGy so that the bone cartilage of a chicken wing was clearly depicted with X-ray doses of 3 and 9 mGy. This was consistent with the simulation's predictions. The results suggest that X-ray Talbot-Lau interferometry would be a promising tool in detecting soft tissues in the human body such as bone cartilage for the X-ray image diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Further optimization of the system will follow to reduce the X-ray dose for clinical use.

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Kazuhiro Kido, Chiho Makifuchi, Junko Kiyohara, Tsukasa Itou, Chika Honda, and Atsushi Momose "Bone cartilage imaging with x-ray interferometry using a practical x-ray tube", Proc. SPIE 7622, Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging, 76224O (23 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843655

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