MUSITOX brings to the laboratory what, until now, was only possible at a synchrotron: seeing soft tissue and sub-resolution structure in 3D, without staining and without destroying the sample.
What it does
- Wave-based imaging. Beyond absorption, the platform measures refraction (phase contrast) and small-angle scattering (dark-field), which give access to soft tissue and to microstructure far below the pixel size.
- Multi-resolution. It is designed to image the same sample at several resolutions at once, from the whole specimen to its fine details.
- Beam modulation. A single, easy-to-manufacture membrane structures the X-ray beam, which considerably simplifies dark-field imaging in the laboratory.
What it is for
- 3D virtual histology of biopsies and organs.
- Testing our methods on real human cases outside the synchrotron.
- Development of high-energy phase-contrast and dark-field CT for oral healthcare, in the ANR ROOTS project, and transfer toward clinical systems with arXimed.