Development of in-house optical system dedicated to validation of processes in x-ray imaging

Phase-contrast imaging is an imaging technique, which provides an advantage over the traditional x-ray imaging by improving the contours of the tissues, thus providing higher contrast between tissues. To advance in this filed, the researchers from the Laboratory of Computer Simulations in Medicine are building a custom optical setup to generate diffraction pattern corresponding to the phase contrast data, but in the optical range. This paper reports on the current state of the optical system prototype and its initial validation and use.