Journal
JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Volume 27, Issue -, Pages 1395-1414Publisher
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S1600577520008309
Keywords
Munich Compact Light Source; inverse Compton X-ray sources; X-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; micro-beam radiation therapy
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- DFG Cluster of Excellence Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP) [DFG EXC-158]
- DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz program
- Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), a Helmholtz Research Infrastructure at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- TUM Institute for Advanced Study - German Excellence Initiative
- European Union Seventh Framework Program [291763]
- European Union
- Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA)
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Inverse Compton scattering provides means to generate low-divergence partially coherent quasi-monochromatic, i.e. synchrotron-like, X-ray radiation on a laboratory scale. This enables the transfer of synchrotron techniques into university or industrial environments. Here, the Munich Compact Light Source is presented, which is such a compact synchrotron radiation facility based on an inverse Compton X-ray source (ICS). The recent improvements of the ICS are reported first and then the various experimental techniques which are most suited to the ICS installed at the Technical University of Munich are reviewed. For the latter, a multipurpose X-ray application beamline with two end-stations was designed. The beamline's design and geometry are presented in detail including the different set-ups as well as the available detector options. Application examples of the classes of experiments that can be performed are summarized afterwards. Among them are dynamic in vivo respiratory imaging, propagation-based phase-contrast imaging, grating-based phase-contrast imaging, X-ray microtomography, K-edge subtraction imaging and X-ray spectroscopy. Finally, plans to upgrade the beamline in order to enhance its capabilities are discussed.
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