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X-ray imaging of bio/medical samples using laser-plasma-based X-ray sources and LiF detector
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019.
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Abstract
- This contribution to ECPD2019 is dedicated to the memory of Anatoly Faenov. During a period of approximately thirteen years 1994–2006, Anatoly and his wife Tatiana Pikuz (simply “Tania” for friends), accepting the frequent invitations of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), cooperated with many Italian research laboratories dedicated to EUV and soft X-ray generation, spread in different towns (L'Aquila, Frascati, Milano, Padova, Pisa, Roma, etc.). In spite of the fact that they could stay in Italy only about one or two months per year, their activity was so intense that more than 50 peer- reviewed publications were generated from their experimental and theoretical work (just considering only the results obtained at L'Aquila and Tor Vergata—Rome Universities and at the ENEA Research Center of Frascati), without mentioning the cultural atmosphere that they stimulated in the field of Science and Humanity. The numerous experimental spectra obtained at ENEA by means of their spherically bent mica spectrometers, together with the corresponding theoretical simulations performed in Moscow, allowed to study the changing role of different excitations mechanisms for various plasma conditions, and to characterize at best the ENEA laser-plasma source for different applications: polychromatic and monochromatic micro-radiography of dried biological samples at 1 keV, soft X-ray contact microscopy (SXCM) of living cells in the water-window spectral region, spectroscopy of hollow atoms, etc. In this memorial paper, the main results of biological samples imaging on lithium fluoride (LiF) detectors, obtained with the ENEA and Tor Vergata University laser-plasma sources, are presented. In particular, the improvement of the micro-radiography and of the SXCM techniques obtained after moving from photoresist detectors and photographic films to lithium fluoride (LiF) detectors are discussed, for both dried and wet biological samples.
- Subjects :
- Spectroscopy and imaging
x ray-produced)
01 natural sciences
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
Optics
law
Plasma generation (laser-produced
0103 physical sciences
Instrumentation
Mathematical Physics
X-ray detectors
Plasma diagnostics - interferometry, spectroscopy and imaging
Plasma generation (laser-produced, RF, x ray-produced)
Physics
Spectrometer
010308 nuclear & particles physics
business.industry
Detector
X-ray
Lithium fluoride
Plasma
Settore ING-IND/15
Laser
chemistry
Plasma diagnostics - interferometry
RF
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8264ecb60b3d154ff8c128ecd3e461d3