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Experiments have been performed to explore the potential of the low emittance 855 MeV electron beam of the Mainz Microtron MAMI for imaging with coherent X-rays. Transition radiation from a micro-focused electron beam traversing a foil stack served as X-ray source with good transverse coherence. Refraction contrast radiographs of low absorbing materials, in particular polymer strings with diameters between 30 and 450 µm, were taken with a polychromatic transition radiation X-ray source with a spectral distribution in the energy range between 8 and about 40 keV. The electron beam spot size had standard deviation σ h=(8.6 ± 0.1) µm in the horizontal and σ v=(7.5 ± 0.1) µm in the vertical direction. X-ray films were used as detectors. The source-to-detector distance amounted to 11.4 m. The objects were placed in a distance of up to 6 m from the X-ray film. Holograms of strings were taken with a beam spot size σ v=(0.50 ± 0.05) µm in vertical direction, and a monochromatic X-ray beam of 6 keV energy. A good longitudinal coherence has been obtained by the (111) reflection of a flat silicon single crystal in Bragg geometry. It has been demonstrated that a direct exposure CCD chip with a pixel size of 13 × 13 µm2 provides a highly effcient on-line detector. Contrast images can easily be generated with a complete elimination of all parasitic background. The on-line capability allows a minimization of the beam spot size by observing the smallest visible interference fringe spacings or the number of visible fringes. It has been demonstrated that X-ray films are also very useful detectors. The main advantage in comparison with the direct exposure CCD chip is the resolution. For the Structurix D3 (Agfa) X-ray film the standard deviation of the resolution was measured to be σ f=(1.2 ± 0.4) µm, which is about a factor of 6 better than for the direct exposure CCD chip. With the small effective X-ray spot size in vertical direction of σ v=(1.2±0.3) µm and a geometrical magnification of up to 7.4 high-quality holograms of tiny transparent strings were taken in which the holographic information is contained in up to 18 interference fringes.
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El-Ghazaly, M. et al. (2006). X-ray phase contrast imaging at MAMI. In: Arenhövel, H., Backe, H., Drechsel, D., Friedrich, J., Kaiser, KH., Walcher, T. (eds) Many Body Structure of Strongly Interacting Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36754-3_20
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