Medical imaging with synchrotron radiation

Abstract

The use of SynchrotronRadiation for medical imaging has seen impressive growth in the last decades. The availability of highly coherent, tunable monochromatic X-ray beams, over a wide energy range, makes Synchrotron Radiation an incomparable tool of research for a variety of purposes. This chapter highlights the main achievements and the perspectives of medical imaging research carried out at various Synchrotron Light laboratories.