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Physics in Medicine and Biology | 1997

Diffraction enhanced x-ray imaging

Dean Chapman; W. Thomlinson; R. E. Johnston; David B. Washburn; Etta D. Pisano; Zhong Zhong; R Menk; Fulvia Arfelli; D. E. Sayers

Diffraction enhanced imaging is a new x-ray radiographic imaging modality using monochromatic x-rays from a synchrotron which produces images of thick absorbing objects that are almost completely free of scatter. They show dramatically improved contrast over standard imaging applied to the same phantom. The contrast is based not only on attenuation but also the refraction and diffraction properties of the sample. This imaging method may improve image quality for medical applications, industrial radiography for non-destructive testing and x-ray computed tomography.


Solid State Communications | 1980

A new family of ternary intermetallic superconducting/magnetic stannides

J.P. Remeika; G. P. Espinosa; A.S. Cooper; H. Barz; J.M. Rowell; D.B. McWhan; J.M. Vandenberg; D. E. Moncton; Z. Fisk; L.D. Woolf; H.C. Hamaker; M. B. Maple; G. Shirane; W. Thomlinson

Abstract A new family of rare earth-rhodium-tin intermetallic compounds, with the representative formula (RE)Rh x Sn y , has been synthesized in single crystal form. The compounds containing the heavier rare earths are superconducting and those with the lighter rare earths are generally magnetic. The compound ErRh 1.1 Sn 3.6 exhibits reentrant superconductivity with T c = 0.97 K and T m = 0.57 K as determined from ac magnetic susceptibility measurements. The synthesis and X-ray characterization of the series are described and the results of electrical resistivity, upper critical magnetic field, magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and neutron scattering measurements on the Er compound are given.


Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | 1999

Instrumentation of the ESRF medical imaging facility

Hélène Elleaume; A. M. Charvet; P. Berkvens; Gilles Berruyer; Thierry Brochard; Y. Dabin; M.C. Dominguez; A. Draperi; Stefan Fiedler; G. Goujon; G. Le Duc; M. Mattenet; Christian Nemoz; M. Perez; M. Renier; C. Schulze; P. Spanne; P. Suortti; W. Thomlinson; F. Estève; Bernard Bertrand; J.F. Le Bas

Abstract At the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) a beamport has been instrumented for medical research programs. Two facilities have been constructed for alternative operation. The first one is devoted to medical imaging and is focused on intravenous coronary angiography and computed tomography (CT). The second facility is dedicated to pre-clinical microbeam radiotherapy (MRT). This paper describes the instrumentation for the imaging facility. Two monochromators have been designed, both are based on bent silicon crystals in the Laue geometry. A versatile scanning device has been built for pre-alignment and scanning of the patient through the X-ray beam in radiography or CT modes. An intrinsic germanium detector is used together with large dynamic range electronics (16 bits) to acquire the data. The beamline is now at the end of its commissioning phase; intravenous coronary angiography is intended to start in 1999 with patients and the CT pre-clinical program is underway on small animals. The first in vivo images obtained on animals in angiography and CT modes are presented to illustrate the performances of these devices.


Physics in Medicine and Biology | 1997

Single- and dual-energy CT with monochromatic synchrotron x-rays

F. A. Dilmanian; X.Y. Wu; E. Parsons; B Ren; J. Kress; T M Button; L D Chapman; Jeffrey A. Coderre; F Giron; D. Greenberg; D J Krus; Zhengrong Liang; S Marcovici; M J Petersen; C T Roque; M. Shleifer; Daniel N. Slatkin; W. Thomlinson; K Yamamoto; Zhong Zhong

We explored the potential for clinical research of computed tomography (CT) with monochromatic x-rays using the preclinical multiple energy computed tomography (MECT) system at the National Synchrotron Light Source. MECT has a fixed, horizontal fan beam with a subject apparatus rotating about a vertical axis; it will be used for imaging the human head and neck. Two CdWO4-photodiode array detectors with different spatial resolutions were used. A 10.5 cm diameter acrylic phantom was imaged with MECT at 43 keV and with a conventional CT (CCT) at 80 kVp: spatial resolution approximately equal to 6.5 line pairs (lp)/cm for both; slice height, 2.6 mm for MECT against 3.0 mm for CCT; surface dose, 3.1 cGy for MECT against 2.0 cGy for CCT. The resultant image noise was 1.5 HU for MECT against 3 HU for CCT. Computer simulations of the same images with more precisely matched spatial resolution, slice height and dose indicated an image-noise ratio of 1.4:1.0 for CCT against MECT. A 13.5 cm diameter acrylic phantom imaged with MECT at approximately 0.1 keV above the iodine K edge and with CCT showed, for a 240 micrograms I ml-1 solution, an image contrast of 26 HU for MECT and 13 and 9 HU for the 80 and 100 kVp CCT, respectively. The corresponding numbers from computer simulation of the same images were 26, 12, and 9 HU, respectively. MECTs potential for use in clinical research is discussed.


Review of Scientific Instruments | 1992

First operation of the medical research facility at the NSLS for coronary angiography

W. Thomlinson; D. Chapman; Richard Garrett; N. Lazarz; H. Moulin; A.C. Thompson; Herbert D. Zeman; George Brown; J. Morrison; P. Reiser; V. Padmanabahn; Lawrence Ong; Stephen Green; J. Giacomini; H. Gordon; Edward Rubenstein

The Synchrotron Medical Research Facility (SMERF) at the National Synchrotron Light Source has been completed and is operational for human coronary angiography experiments. The imaging system and hardware have been brought to SMERF from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory where prior studies were carried out. SMERF consists of a suite of rooms at the end of the high‐field superconducting wiggler X17 beam line and is classified as an Ambulatory Health Care Facility. Since October of 1990 the coronary arteries of five patients have been imaged. Continuously improving image quality has shown that a large part of both the right coronary artery and the left anterior descending coronary artery can be imaged following a venous injection of contrast agent.


Solid State Communications | 1978

Direct observation of long range ferromagnetic order in the reentrant superconductor HoMo6S8

Jeffrey W. Lynn; D. E. Moncton; W. Thomlinson; G. Shirane; R.N. Shelton

Abstract The neutron scattering technique has been used to investigate the magnetic properties of the ternary Chevrel-phase superconductor HoMo6S8. Magnetic critical scattering is observed in the superconducting phase, with the magnetic correlation range increasing with decreasing temperature. At the transition in which the normal state is reentered, the system is found to develop long range ferromagnetic order, with a saturated magnetic moment at low temperatures of 9.06 ± .3 μB and the spin direction along the unique [111] trigonal axis.


Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | 1993

A single crystal bent Laue monochromator for coronary angiography

P. Suortti; W. Thomlinson; D. Chapman; D. P. Siddons; C. Schulze

Abstract A new monochromator has been developed for the human coronary angiography project at the National Synchrotron Light Source. It is a single bent crystal of silicon in the Laue transmission geometry. The design, testing and use of this monochromator in a human imaging procedure will be discussed.


Breast disease | 1998

Medical applications of diffraction enhanced imaging.

Dean Chapman; Etta D. Pisano; W. Thomlinson; Zhong Zhong; R. E. Johnston; David B. Washburn; D. E. Sayers; K. Malinowska

We have developed a new X-ray imaging technique, diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI), which can be used to independently visualize the refraction and absorption of an object. The images are almost completely scatter-free, allowing enhanced contrast of objects that develop small angle scattering. The combination of these properties has resulted in images of mammography phantoms and tissues that have dramatically improved contrast over standard imaging techniques. This technique potentially is applicable to mammography and other fields of medical X-ray imaging and to radiology in general, as well as possible use in nondestructive testing and X-ray computed tomography. Images of various tissues and materials are presented to demonstrate the wide applicability of this technique to medical and biological imaging.


Radiation Research | 2002

Lack of Cell Death Enhancement after Irradiation with Monochromatic Synchrotron X Rays at the K-Shell Edge of Platinum Incorporated in Living SQ20B Human Cells as cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum (II)

Stéphanie Corde; Marie-Claude Biston; Hélène Elleaume; F. Estève; A. M. Charvet; A. Joubert; V. Ducros; S. Bohic; A. Simionovici; Thierry Brochard; Christian Nemoz; M. Renier; Irène Troprès; Stephan Fiedler; Alberto Bravin; W. Thomlinson; J.F. Le Bas; Jacques Balosso

Abstract Corde, S., Biston, M. C., Elleaume, H., Estève, F., Charvet, A. M., Joubert, A., Ducros, V., Bohic, S., Simionovici, A., Brochard, T., Nemoz, C., Renier, Troprès, I., Fiedler, S., Bravin, A., M., Thomlinson, W., Le Bas, J. F. and Balosso, J. Lack of Cell Death Enhancement after Irradiation with Monochromatic Synchrotron X Rays at the K-Shell Edge of Platinum Incorporated in Living SQ20B Human Cells as cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum (II). Radiat. Res. 158, 763–770 (2002). In this paper we describe the results of experiments using synchrotron radiation to trigger the Auger effect in living human cancer cells treated with a widely used chemotherapy drug: cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (cisplatin). The experiments were carried out at the ID17 beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, which produces a high-fluence monochromatic beam that is adjustable from 20 to 80 keV. Cisplatin was chosen as the carrier of platinum atoms in the cells because of its alkylating-like activity and the irradiation was done with monochromatic beams above and below the platinum K-shell edge (78.39 keV). Cell survival curves were comparable with those obtained for the same cells under conventional irradiation conditions. At a low dose of cisplatin (0.1 μM, 48 h), no difference was seen in survival when the cells were irradiated above and below the K-shell edge of platinum. Higher cisplatin concentrations were investigated to enhance the cellular platinum content. The results with 1 μM cisplatin for 12 h showed no difference when the cells were irradiated with beams above or below the platinum K-shell edge with the exception of the higher cell death resulting from drug toxicity. The intracellular content of platinum was significant, as measured macroscopically by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Its subcellular localization and particularly its presence in the cell nucleus were verified by microscopic synchrotron X-ray fluorescence. This was the first known attempt at K-shell edge photon activation of stable platinum in living cells with a platinum complex used for chemotherapy. Its evident toxicity in these cells leads us to put forth the hypothesis that cisplatin toxicity can mask the enhancement of cell death induced by the irradiation above the K-shell edge. However, K-shell edge photon activation of stable elements provides a powerful technique for the understanding of the biological effects of Auger processes. Further avenues of development are discussed.


Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | 1988

A bent laue crystal monochromator for angiography at the NSLS

Pekka Suortti; W. Thomlinson

Abstract A focusing Laue-geometry dual energy monochromator has been designed for the human coronary angiography project at the National Synchrotron Light Source. The monochromatic photon beams from (111) reflections from the cylindrically bent [110] waters of silicon focus and cross at the patient. The energy of one of the beam is just above the K edge of iodine, used as a contrast agent for the coronary imaging and the other beamss energy is just below the edge. The reflectivity of the crystals is enhanced due to bending by an order of magnitude over the dynamical value. This advantage is somewhat offset by limiting the vertical aperture in order to maintain a bandwidth of a few hundred eV in the beams. The major advantage of this device should be its low power absorption in the beam from the superconducting wiggler magnet.

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G. Shirane

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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D. E. Moncton

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Zhong Zhong

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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A.C. Thompson

University of California

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D. Chapman

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Dean Chapman

University of Saskatchewan

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