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Auteurs principaux: Asakura, Kazunori, Hayashida, Kiyoshi, Yoneyama, Tomokage, Noda, Hirofumi, Yoshimoto, Marina, Hakamata, Tomohiro, Matsumoto, Hironori, Tsunemi, Hiroshi
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00632
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  • We have been developing an x-ray imaging system, Multi-Image X-ray Interferometer Module (MIXIM), to achieve a high angular resolution with a compact system size. MIXIM is comprised of a mask with equally-spaced apertures and an x-ray detector. The aperture size and mask-detector distance determine the system's angular resolution. Although a smaller aperture gives a better resolution, the degree of improvement is limited by a diffraction effect. MIXIM circumvents this problem by utilizing the Talbot effect. Our experiment with the previous model equipped with a multi-pinhole mask obtained an angular resolution of 0.5" with a mask-detector distance of 92 cm. A major downside of the multi-pinhole mask is, however, that it has a very low opening fraction, which results in a very low effective area. Here, we newly adopt to MIXIM a multiple coded aperture (MCA) mask, an array of coded aperture patterns. Our proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates that the Talbot effect works even for the MCA mask with a high opening fraction of ~50% at 12.4 keV. Consequently, the new MIXIM realizes about 25 times as large an effective area as that of the previous model, while maintaining a high angular resolution of 0.2" and a compact size of ~1.5 m.