Novel Edge-Enhanced X-ray Imaging Utilizing MIRRORCLE.

Brilliant hard X-rays are produced by the portable synchrotron named MIRRORCLE. The X-ray images taken by MIRRORCLE show enhanced edge effect even with contact imaging. Bodies composed of soft tissues are distinguished in spite of the predominantly hard X-ray components. The imaging mechanism, which is different from the phase contrast, was studied. It was found that the edge effect is partly due to the micron order x-ray source spot size, and MeV region hard X-rays. The characteristic of the medical diagnosis X-ray images and nondestructive inspection X-ray images taken by MIRRORCLE are studied in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]