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Optics Design And Fabrication For A Lung Interferometry-Radiography System, Rachael Lyn Blair
Optics Design And Fabrication For A Lung Interferometry-Radiography System, Rachael Lyn Blair
LSU Master's Theses
Purpose: High prevalence of lung diseases leads to many people worldwide needing spirometry and imaging testing. The typical imaging done uses chest radiography and/or low-dose CT. Lung tissue is difficult to visualize, making them substandard for monitoring lung disease progression. An improvement on these systems is x-ray interferometry which produces additional images that provide better visualization of changes in the lung tissue. The set-up of x-ray interferometry builds upon other imaging systems in that it includes diffraction gratings.
Materials: This thesis focused on implementing the fabrication processes to create diffraction gratings for a lung imager prototype that is currently under …