X. Y. Wu

TL;DR: Adult‐rat‐brain tissues display an unusually high resistance to necrosis when serially irradiated with parallel, thin slices of a microplanar beam of synchrotron‐wiggler‐generated X rays, and correlation with radiation doses shows that loss of tissue structure was confined to beam‐crossing regions and that only minor damage was done to zones of the brain irradiated unidirectionally.

TL;DR: Diffraction enhanced imaging is a new, synchrotron-based, x-ray radiography method that uses monochromatic, fan-shaped beams, with an analyser crystal positioned between the subject and the detector, and has the potential for use in clinical radiography and in industry.

TL;DR: The potential for clinical research of computed tomography (CT) with monochromatic x-rays using the preclinical multiple energy computed tomographic (MECT) system at the National Synchrotron Light Source is explored.

TL;DR: Brain tolerance was estimated to be about three times higher to microbeam irradiation as compared with broad beam irradiation, as compared to the broad beam modality.

TL;DR: The status of the synchrotron-based computed tomography (MECT) system is described in this paper, which uses monochromatic beams from the X17 superconducting wiggler beam line for imaging the human head and neck.