Affiliations: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble,
France | Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und
Energie, Institute of Applied Materials, Berlin, Germany | Zoologisches Institut, Abteilung Evolutionsbiologie
der Invertebraten, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany | Institute for Synchrotron Radiation – ANKA,
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany | Charité – Dept. of Maxillofacial and
Facial-Plastic Surgery, Division of Oral Medicine, Radiology and Surgery,
Berlin, Germany | Technical University of Berlin, Institute for
Materials Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany
Note: [] Corresponding author: A. Rack, ESRF, BP 220, 38043 Grenoble
Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 (0)476 88 1781; Fax: +33 (0)476 88 2252; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Time-resolved imaging with penetrating radiation has an outstanding
scientific value but its realisation requires a high density of photons as well
as corresponding fast X-ray image detection schemes. Bending magnets and
insertion devices of third generation synchrotron light sources offer a
polychromatic photon flux density which is high enough to perform hard X-ray
imaging with a spatio-temporal resolution up to the
μm-μs range. Existing indirect X-ray
image detectors commonly used at synchrotron light sources can be adapted for
fast image acquisition by employing CMOS-based digital high speed cameras
already available on the market. Selected applications from life sciences and
materials research underline the high potential of this high-speed hard X-ray
microimaging approach.
Keywords: Synchrotron radiation, X-ray imaging, radioscopy, CMOS, cineradiography, microtomography, scintillator, X-ray phase contrast, X-ray detector, real time experiment, digital radiography
