Publications related to Fluoroscopy

In vivo X-ray microtomography locally affects stem radial growth with no immediate physiological impact

Pascal Turberg, Charlotte Grossiord, Laura Mekarni, Hervé Cochard

Microcomputed tomography (mu CT) is a nondestructive X-ray imaging method used in plant physiology to visualize in situ plant tissues that enables assessments of embolized xylem vessels. Whereas evidence for X-ray-induced cellular damage has been reported, ...

Oxford Univ Press Inc2024

X-ray imaging detector for radiological applications adapted to the context and requirements of low- and middle-income countries

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, René Salathé, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Sébastien Emmanuel Blanc, Jérôme Schmid, Hubert Blanchard, Romain Sahli, Matthias Hüser

This paper describes the development of a novel medical x-ray imaging system adapted to the needs and constraints of low- and middle-income countries. The developed system is based on an indirect conversion chain: a scintillator plate produces visible ligh ...

2022

Locomotion of Sensor‐Integrated Soft Robotic Devices Inside Sub‐Millimeter Arteries with Impaired Flow Conditions

Diego Ghezzi, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Lorenzo Francesco John Noseda, Amit Yedidia Dolev, Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini, Adele Fanelli

One of the grand challenges in interventional cardiology and neuroradiology is to minimize the operation time and risk of damage during catheterization. These two factors drastically increase if the target location resides in small and tortuous vessels. Fl ...

Wiley2022

Medipix4, a high granularity four sides buttable pixel readout chip for high resolution spectroscopic X-ray imaging at rates compatible with medical CT scans

Viros Sriskaran

Medipix4 is the latest member in the Medipix/Timepix family of pixel detector chips aimed at high rate spectroscopic X-ray imaging using high-Z materials. The chip address the limitations of conventional hybrid pixel detectors for X-ray imaging. Its predec ...

EPFL2022

Imaging with Coherent X-rays: From the Early Synchrotron Tests to SYNAPSE

Giorgio Margaritondo

The high longitudinal and lateral coherence of synchrotron X-rays sources radically transformed radiography. Before them, the image contrast was almost only based on absorption. Coherent synchrotron sources transformed radiography into a multi-faceted tool ...

MDPI2021

Combining fluorescence-based image segmentation and automated microfluidics for ultrafast cell-by-cell assessment of biomarkers for HER2-type breast carcinoma

Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Huu Tuan Nguyen

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is one of the main clinical techniques for biomarker assessment on tissue biopsies. It consists in chromogenic labeling with specific antibodies, followed by optical imaging, and it is used for diagnosis and therapeutic targeting ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2019

Generation and measurement of sub-micrometer relativistic electron beams

Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Christian David

The generation of low-emittance electron beams has received significant interest in recent years. Driven by the requirements of X-ray-free electron lasers, the emittance of photocathode injectors has been reduced significantly, with corresponding increase ...

2018

Full-field measurement of micromotion around a cementless femoral stem using micro-CT imaging and radiopaque markers

Dominique Pioletti, Alexandre Terrier, Valérie Hélène Emilie Malfroy Camine, Hannes Andreas Rüdiger

A good primary stability of cementless femoral stems is essential for the long-term success of total hip arthroplasty. Experimental measurement of implant micromotion with linear variable differential transformers is commonly used to assess implant primary ...

Elsevier2016

Improved Variational Denoising of Flow Fields with Application to Phase-Contrast MRI Data

Michaël Unser, Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Emrah Bostan, Orestis Vardoulis, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

We propose a new variational framework for the problem of reconstructing flow fields from noisy measurements. The formalism is based on regularizers penalizing the singular values of the Jacobian of the field. Specifically, we rely on the nuclear norm. Our ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Visualization of water drying in porous materials by X-ray phase contrast imaging

Anne Bonnin

We present in this study results from X-ray tomographic microscopy with synchrotron radiation performed both in attenuation and phase contrast modes on a limestone sample during two stages of water drying. No contrast agent was used in order to increase th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon

Christophe Ballif, Jonas Geissbühler, Nicolas Würsch, Andrea Franco

Microchannel plates are vacuum-based electron multipliers for particle—in particular, photon— detection, with applications ranging from image intensifiers to single-photon detectors. Their key strengths are large signal amplification, large active area, mi ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Fast Imaging of Turbulent Plasmas in the TORPEX Device

Davoud Iraji

This thesis addresses the issue of turbulence generated modes and intermittent structures using a fast visible imaging system on TORPEX. The plasma radiation mechanisms and experimental setup of the imaging system are discussed together with an optimized t ...

EPFL2011

Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging : Motion Correction and Improvement Strategies

Tobias Kober

Notwithstanding its great success in diagnostic routine and research, structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) still faces challenges. In this context, the present thesis studies new approaches to mitigate the motion susceptibility of MRI. Furthermore, ...

EPFL2011

Bi-planar 2D-to-3D Registration in Fourier Domain for Stereoscopic X-Ray Motion Tracking

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Kamiar Aminian, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Dominique Zosso, Benoît Le Callennec

In this paper we present a new method to track bone movements in stereoscopic X-ray image series of the knee joint. The method is based on two different X-ray image sets: a rotational series of acquisitions of the still subject knee that will allow the tom ...

2008

Point Similarity Measures Based on MRF Modeling of Difference Images for Spline-Based 2D-3D Rigid Registration of x-Ray Fluoroscopy to CT Images

Michaël Unser, Philippe Thévenaz, Xiuwei Zhang

One of the main factors that affect the accuracy of intensity-based registration of two-dimensional (2D) X-ray fluoroscopy to three-dimensional (3D) CT data is the similarity measure, which is a criterion function that is used in the registration procedure ...

Springer2006

Phase contrast radiography of Lewy bodies in Parkinson disease

Giorgio Margaritondo

Parkinson's disease (PD), defined as a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons and the presence of Lewy bodies in neurons. Morphological study of Lewy bodies is important to identify the causes and the processes of ...

Elsevier2006

Reactivity of manganese, technetium and rhenium aquacarbonyl-complexes as potential precursors for radiopharmaceuticals

Pascal Grundler

Technetium is an artificial element and its isotope 99mTc is now used for several years as radio-imaging agent. Much research effort is directed towards enhanced targeting of the imaging agents in order to improve accuracy of the diagnosis and reduce the r ...

EPFL2005

Frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging for endoscopic clinical cancer photodetection: Apparatus design and preliminary results

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, André Studzinski

We describe a new fluorescence imaging device for clin. cancer photodetection in hollow organs in which the tumor/normal tissue contrast is derived from the fluorescence lifetime of endogenous or exogenous fluorochromes. This fluorescence lifetime contrast ...

Springer US1997