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Dr. rer. nat. Benedikt Günther

Munich Compact Light Source

  • machine development, optimisation & characterisation
  • laser enhancement cavities for inverse Compton X-ray sources

Application of the MuCLS / inverse Compton X-ray sources

  • X-ray microscopy and (dynamic) phase-contrast imaging
  • X-ray spectroscopy and scattering technique

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    Gradl, Regine; Dierolf, Martin; Günther, Benedikt; Hehn, Lorenz; Möller, Winfried; Kutschke, David; Yang, Lin; Donnelley, Martin; Murrie, Rhiannon; Erl, Alexander; Stoeger, Tobias; Gleich, Bernhard; Achterhold, Klaus; Schmid, Otmar; Pfeiffer, Franz; Morgan, Kaye Susannah: In vivo Dynamic Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging using a Compact Light Source. Scientific Reports 8 (1), 2018, 6788 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Eggl, Elena; Grandl, Susanne; Sztrόkay-Gaul, Anikό; Dierolf, Martin; Jud, Christoph; Heck, Lisa; Burger, Karin; Günther, Benedikt; Achterhold, Klaus; Mayr, Doris; Wilkens, Jan J.; Auweter, Sigrid D.; Gleich, Bernhard; Hellerhoff, Karin; Reiser, Maximilian F.; Pfeiffer, Franz; Herzen, Julia: Dose-compatible grating-based phase-contrast mammography on mastectomy specimens using a compact synchrotron source. Scientific Reports 8 (1), 2018, 15700 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Braig, Eva; Böhm, Jessica; Dierolf, Martin; Jud, Christoph; Günther, Benedikt; Mechlem, Korbinian; Allner, Sebastian; Sellerer, Thorsten; Achterhold, Klaus; Gleich, Bernhard; Noël, Peter; Pfeiffer, Daniela; Rummeny, Ernst; Herzen, Julia; Pfeiffer, Franz: Direct quantitative material decomposition employing grating-based X-ray phase-contrast CT. Scientific Reports 8 (1), 2018, 16394 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Hehn, Lorenz; Gradl, Regine; Voss, Andrej; Günther, Benedikt; Dierolf, Martin; Jud, Christoph; Willer, Konstantin; Allner, Sebastian; Hammel, Jörg U.; Hessler, Roland; Morgan, Kaye S.; Herzen, Julia; Hemmert, Werner; Pfeiffer, Franz: Propagation-based phase-contrast tomography of a guinea pig inner ear with cochlear implant using a model-based iterative reconstruction algorithm. Biomedical Optics Express 9 (11), 2018, 5330 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Kulpe, Stephanie; Dierolf, Martin; Braig, Eva; Günther, Benedikt; Achterhold, Klaus; Gleich, Bernhard; Herzen, Julia; Rummeny, Ernst; Pfeiffer, Franz; Pfeiffer, Daniela: K-edge subtraction imaging for coronary angiography with a compact synchrotron X-ray source. PLOS ONE 13 (12), 2018, e0208446 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Eggl, Elena; Mechlem, Korbinian; Braig, Eva; Kulpe, Stephanie; Dierolf, Martin; Günther, Benedikt; Achterhold, Klaus; Herzen, Julia; Gleich, Bernhard; Rummeny, Ernst; Noёl, Peter B.; Pfeiffer, Franz; Muenzel, Daniela: Mono-Energy Coronary Angiography with a Compact Synchrotron Source. Scientific Reports 7, 2017, 42211 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Gradl, Regine; Dierolf, Martin; Hehn, Lorenz; Günther, Benedikt; Yildirim, Ali Önder; Gleich, Bernhard; Achterhold, Klaus; Pfeiffer, Franz; Morgan, Kaye Susannah: Propagation-based Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging at a Compact Light Source. Scientific Reports 7 (1), 2017, 4908 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Jud, Christoph; Braig, Eva; Dierolf, Martin; Eggl, Elena; Günther, Benedikt; Achterhold, Klaus; Gleich, Bernhard; Rummeny, Ernst; Noël, Peter; Pfeiffer, Franz; Muenzel, Daniela: Trabecular bone anisotropy imaging with a compact laser-undulator synchrotron x-ray source. Scientific Reports 7 (1), 2017, 14477 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Burger, Karin; Ilicic, Katarina; Dierolf, Martin; Günther, Benedikt; Walsh, Dietrich W. M.; Schmid, Ernst; Eggl, Elena; Achterhold, Klaus; Gleich, Bernhard; Combs, Stephanie E.; Molls, Michael; Schmid, Thomas E.; Pfeiffer, Franz; Wilkens, Jan J.: Increased cell survival and cytogenetic integrity by spatial dose redistribution at a compact synchrotron X-ray source. PLOS ONE 12 (10), 2017, e0186005 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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    Eggl, Elena; Dierolf, Martin; Achterhold, Klaus; Jud, Christoph; Günther, Benedikt; Braig, Eva; Gleich, Bernhard; Pfeiffer, Franz: The Munich Compact Light Source: initial performance measures. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 23, 2016, 1137-1142 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

March 2024
Vienna, Austria
High-Brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress “Optimisation of K-edge Subtraction Imaging for Narrow-Band Inverse Compton X-ray Sources” Oral Presentation
July 2023
Garching, Germany
International Symposium on Medical Applications of X-ray Phase-Contrast & Photon Counting (IMXP) “Optimisation of K-edge subtraction imaging for narrowband inverse Compton X-ray sources” Poster Presentation
June 2023
San Sebastian, Spain
Physics and Applications of High-Brightness Beams

“The Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS) – a laboratory-size laser-undulator X-ray source for biomedical applications”

Oral Presentation
Jan. 2022  
Online
IFAST Accelerator Imaging Kick-off -Workshop  "The Munich Compact Light Source" eTalk
Nov. 2020
Online 
High-Brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress 2020 "The Versatile X-ray Beamline at the Munich Compact Light Source, an Inverse Compton Synchrotron Facility" eTalk
Nov. 2019
Bologna, IT     
Advanced Medical Imaging with Synchrotron and Compton X-ray Sources "Medical imaging research and spectroscopy at the MuCLS" Oral Presentation
Aug. 2019 San Diego, CA, USA SPIE Optics and Photonics "Evaluation and optimization of multimodal x-ray imaging techniques for inverse Compton x-ray sources" Oral presentation
Aug. 2019
Lombard, IL, USA
68th Denver X-ray Conference (DXC) & 25th International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microanalysis (ICXOM) "Full-Field Structured Illumination Super-Resolution X-ray Transmission Microscopy" Poster
May 2019
Melbourne, AUS
10th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) "The Munich Compact Light Source: X-ray Imaging Applications of a Compact Inverse-Compton Synchrotron Source" Poster
Aug. 2018
Baltimore, MD, USA
Microscopy and Microanalysis  "The Munich Compact Light Source: Biomedical Research At a Laboratory-Scale Inverse-Compton Synchrotron X-ray Source" Oral presentation
Aug. 2018
Saskatoon, Canada
14thX-ray Microscopy Conference (XRM) "The Munich Compact Light Source: Flux Doubling and Source Position Stabilization At a Compact Inverse-Compton Synchrotron X-ray Source" Poster
March 2018
Straßburg, FR
OSA High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress: Compact EUV & X-ray Light Sources "X-ray Beam Monitoring and Source Position Stabilisation at an Inverse-Compton X-ray Source" Oral presentation
Dec. 2017
Triest, IT
24th International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microscopy (IXCOM) "The Munich Compact Light Source -Performance upgrade and biomedical research" Oral presentation
Oct. 2016
Garching, DE
Workshop "Science at the Munich Compact Light Source" "The MuCLS: source properties, characterization and challenges" Oral presentation
Aug. 2016
Oxford, UK                                                              
13th X-ray Microscopy Conference (XRM) "Towards high-resolution microscopy with a laboratory-sized quasimonochromatic X-ray source based on inverse Compton scattering" Poster

  • 2019  Best Poster Award at the combined meeting of the 68th Denver X-ray Conference (DXC) & 25th International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microanalysis (ICXOM) in Lombard, IL, USA (2019) for the contribution "Full-Field Structured Illumination Super-Resolution X-ray Transmission Microscopy’’