1. Lithium fluoride as a novel X-ray image detector for biological mu-world capture
- Author
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T. A. Pikuz, Giuseppe Baldacchini, B. F. Flora, A Pace, A. F. Bonfigli, A. R. M. Montereali, A. A. Faenov, and L. Reale
- Subjects
Materials science ,Insecta ,Biological objects ,Biomedical Engineering ,Bioengineering ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Fluorides ,Optics ,Animals ,Nanotechnology ,Wings, Animal ,General Materials Science ,X-Ray Intensifying Screens ,Dynamic range ,Image detector ,business.industry ,Diptera ,X-Rays ,Radiochemistry ,Detector ,Resolution (electron density) ,Lithium fluoride ,Reproducibility of Results ,General Chemistry ,Equipment Design ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Equipment Failure Analysis ,Radiography ,chemistry ,Microscopy, Fluorescence ,X ray image ,Lithium Compounds ,Feasibility Studies ,Luminescence ,business ,Crystallization ,Electron Probe Microanalysis - Abstract
X-ray microradiographs of small biological objects, such as animals and plant materials at micrometric resolution, are currently performed by various methods, all of which are limited by the resolution or the dynamic range of the image detectors. Here a novel X-ray image detector is discussed, in which the previous limitations have been overcome. A film of lithium fluoride salt is used as a detector, in which the stored biological image is read by observing the optically stimulated visible luminescence of the active color centers, efficiently produced by the X-rays.
- Published
- 2004