Research Highlights

Scherer, K. et al. Improved Diagnostics by Assessing the Micromorphology of Breast Calcifications via X-Ray Dark-Field Radiography. Nature Publishing Group 1–11 (2016) [http://doi.org/10.1038/srep36991] Purpose: In this article, we exploit the sub-pixel resolution sensitivity of X-ray dark-field…

Wieczorek, M., Schaff, F., Pfeiffer, F. & Lasser, T. Anisotropic X-Ray Dark-Field Tomography: A Continuous Model and its Discretization. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 158101–5 (2016). [http://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.158101] Purpose: We present a novel general closed-form, continuous forward model…

Grumbein, S. et al. Hydrophobic Properties of Biofilm-Enriched Hybrid Mortar. Adv. Mater. 28, 8138–8143 (2016) [http://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201602123] Purpose:  A mortar hybrid material is presented in which biomineralization processes are stimulated by adding a biological component, i.e.,…

Scherer, K., Birnbacher, L., Willer, K., Chabior, M., Herzen, J. & Pfeiffer, F. Correspondence: Quantitative evaluation of X-ray dark-field images for microcalcification analysis in mammography. Nature Communications 7, 10863–3 (2016) [http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10863] Quantitative evaluation…

Schaff, F., Bech, M., Zaslansky, P., Jud, C., Liebi, M., Guizar-Sicairos, M. & Pfeiffer, F. Six-dimensional real and reciprocal space small-angle X-ray scattering tomography. Nature 527, 353–356 (2015) [http://doi.org/10.1038/nature16060] Purpose: Here we present a solution to this problem and…

Zanette, I., Zdora, M.C., Zhou, T., Bruvall, A., Larsson, D.H., Thibault, P. Hertz, H.M. & Pfeiffer, F.  X-ray microtomography using correlation of near-field speckles for material characterization. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112, 12569–12573 (2015) [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502828112] …

Eggl, E., Schleede, S., Bech, M., Achterhold, K., Loewen, R., Ruth, R.D. & Pfeiffer, F.  X-ray phase-contrast tomography with a compact laser-driven synchrotron source. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112, 5567–5572 (2015) [http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500938112] Purpose: Here we present, to our…

Eggl, E., Malecki, A., Schaff, F., Potdevin, G., Noël, P.B., Bauer, J.S., Gordijenko, O., Grande Garcia, E., Burgkart, R., Rummeny, E.J., Baum, T. & Pfeiffer, F. Prediction of Vertebral Failure Load by Using X-Ray Vector Radiographic Imaging. Radiology 275, 553–561 (2015).…