Phase contrast measured head to head against cone-beam CT on real dental questions — the comparison a radiologist needs before taking the method seriously.
Publications
Papers, chapters and preprints, newest first. Selected work at the top carries a one-line takeaway written by hand.
The authoritative list is ORCID 0000-0002-0332-4903; a Google Scholar profile is also kept current. Work by group members that I did not co-author is included. Where a paper produced code or a dataset, the entry links to it directly.
Selected work
Papers that between them describe what the group does and why.
Which mask pattern actually maximises the signal — a question everyone building these setups asks, answered with numbers instead of folklore.
Orientation and anisotropy from one image pair, without assuming what the scattering profile looks like. This is the method behind SerPy.
The bridge paper: what a dark-field pixel measures, expressed in the units a SAXS beamline already uses.
A like-for-like comparison of every speckle-tracking algorithm in circulation, so the choice stops being a matter of which lab you trained in.
Cement setting watched in three dimensions as it happens, at the nanoscale — the same wave-optical toolbox, pointed at a material rather than a tissue.
Validated against SAXS anisotropy on a laboratory source — the result that made the lab-based programme credible.
Myelin mapped across a whole brain with no sectioning and no stain, in models of white-matter injury.
The Fokker–Planck route to directional dark-field — the model-based approach our own statistical method is measured against.
The founding MoBI paper: a random mask and an ordinary laboratory source are enough to retrieve the wavefront. This is what made everything since possible away from a synchrotron.
Attenuation, phase and dark-field pulled from the same speckle images at once: the multi-channel picture the viewer on our home page illustrates.
The first clinical case imaged by synchrotron CT at a substantially reduced dose — evidence that the physics survives contact with a patient.
Lead found in the ink of the Herculaneum scrolls, overturning the assumption that ancient ink was carbon only — and explaining why the letters can be read at all.
Text read inside a carbonised scroll that cannot be unrolled. Still the clearest demonstration of why phase, not absorption, is the useful contrast.
Whole human breast tumours diagnosed in three dimensions at a dose compatible with screening — the result that put phase contrast on the clinical map.
Everything
107 entries, newest first. Datasets are listed separately under code and data.
2026
- Clinical potential of phase contrast imaging in dentomaxillofacial radiology compared to cone beam CT Bazot et al. · Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
- Implicit Single-Exposure Retrieval of X-ray Phase, Absorption, and Directional Dark-Field Kefs et al. · IRBM
- On the optimization of the geometric pattern for structured illumination based X-ray phase contrast and dark-field imaging: a simulation study and its experimental validation Magnin et al. · Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
- Single-exposure statistical retrieval of the directional dark-field signal Kefs, Magnin, Brun et al. · Optica 13(6)
- Universal and quantitative statistical approach to retrieve X-ray directional dark-field using a single exposure Kefs et al. · Optica
- X-ray dark-field contrast as a function of the sample-to-detector propagation distance Magnin et al. · Optica
2025
- A self-healing radiopaque hyaluronic acid hydrogel as a new injectable biomaterial for precision medicine in osteoarthritis. Said et al. · Theranostics
- How X-ray dark-field imaging relates to small-angle X-ray scattering measurements. Magnin et al. · Journal of applied crystallography
- Longitudinal imaging with multicolour CT provides a surrogate marker of response to treatment with a novel iodine-labelled hydrogel in a murine model of osteoarthritis — · conference paper
- Review and experimental comparison of speckle-tracking algorithms for X-ray phase contrast imaging Celestre et al. · Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
- Twelve Years of LabEx PRIMES (2012-2024) — · book
2024
- 3D quantification of the lacunocanalicular network on human femoral diaphysis through synchrotron radiation-based nanoCT Yu et al. · Journal of Structural Biology
- Combining Wave and Particle Effects in the Simulation of X-ray Phase Contrast—A Review Pietersoone et al. · Instruments
- In vivo monitoring of stem cells and their encapsulating scaffold using dual-contrast agent labelling and multicolour CT: application in a murine model of osteoarthritis — · conference paper
- Refraction simulation for optimisation of X-Ray Phase Contrast imaging — · conference paper
2023
- 4D nanoimaging of early age cement hydration. Shirani et al. · Nature communications
- A novel injectable radiopaque hydrogel with potent properties for multicolor CT imaging in the context of brain and cartilage regenerative therapy Said et al. · — · preprint
- DISPOSITIF D'IMAGERIE, APPAREIL D'IMAGERIE OU DE CARACTERISATION DE MATERIAUX LE COMPRENANT ET PROCEDE D'IMAGERIE — · patent
- Dark-field and directional dark-field on low-coherence x ray sources with random mask modulations: validation with SAXS anisotropy measurements Magnin et al. · Optics Letters
- High-resolution synchrotron K-edge subtraction CT allows tracking and quantifying therapeutic cells and their scaffold in a rat model of focal cerebral injury and can serve as a reference for spectral photon counting CT. Tavakoli et al. · Nanotheranostics
- Human femoral lacuno-canalicular network by X-ray nano-CT — · conference paper
- Human fetal virtual histology with X-ray phase contrast imaging Vérot et al. · — · preprint
- Imagerie cutanée par rayonnement synchrotron : application aux pseudo-engelures COVID-19 Mouret et al. · — · conference paper
- In vivo monitoring of hydrogel-embedded stem cells: combination of Synchrotron X-ray phase-contrast and multi-spectral imaging applied to osteoarthritis mice models. — · conference paper
- In vivo targeting and multimodal imaging of cerebral amyloid-β aggregates using hybrid GdF 3 nanoparticles Lerouge et al. · Nanomedicine
- Quantification of cartilage and subchondral bone cysts on knee specimens based on a spectral photon-counting computed tomography Garcelon et al. · Scientific Reports
- Taking into account wave effects in Monte Carlo simulation of phase contrast imaging using the Wigner Distribution Function Pietersoone et al. · — · conference paper
- Use of metal-based contrast agents for in vivo MR and CT imaging of phagocytic cells in neurological pathologies Wiart et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- Virtual histology of Alzheimer's disease: Biometal entrapment within amyloid-β plaques allows for detection via X-ray phase-contrast imaging. Chourrout et al. · Acta biomaterialia
2022
- Brain virtual histology with X-ray phase-contrast tomography Part I: whole-brain myelin mapping in white-matter injury models Chourrout et al. · Biomedical Optics Express · newspaper article
- Brain virtual histology with X-ray phase-contrast tomography Part II: 3D morphologies of amyloid-β plaques in Alzheimer’s disease models Chourrout et al. · Biomedical Optics Express · newspaper article
- Evaluating inflammations in high-resolution x-ray phase contrast images of SKG spondylarthritis mice models Singh et al. · Developments in X-Ray Tomography XIV · conference paper
- In Vitro Preparation of Actively Maturing Bovine Articular Cartilage Explants for X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging Bissardon et al. · Journal of Visualized Experiments · newspaper article
- Monitoring the fate of stem cells and encapsulating hydrogel intraarticularly injected in mice knees using Synchrotron K-edge subtraction computed tomography — · conference paper
- Monitoring the fate of stem cells and their encapsulating hydrogel in mice knees using Synchrotron K-edge subtraction computed tomography — · conference paper
- Mouse Models of Osteoarthritis: A Summary of Models and Outcomes Assessment. Drevet et al. · Comparative medicine
- New imaging tools for mouse models of osteoarthritis Drevet et al. · GeroScience
- Virtual monoenergetic images from photon-counting spectral computed tomography to assess knee osteoarthritis Chappard et al. · European Radiology Experimental
- X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging from Synchrotron to Conventional Sources: A Review of the Existing Techniques for Biological Applications Quenot et al. · Applied Sciences
2021
- An iodine-labelled hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel : a radiopaque biopolymer to monitor the fate of bioscaffold in cell therapy applications — · conference paper
- Bicolor imaging to track therapeutic cells and their encapsulating scaffold: translation from synchrotron to spectral photon counting computed tomography — · conference paper
- Calcified cartilage revealed in whole joint by X-ray phase contrast imaging Broche et al. · Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
- Contributions à l’Imagerie Synchrotron : Applications et Transfert sur Sources Conventionnelles — · dissertation thesis
- Directional dark-field implicit x-ray speckle tracking using an anisotropic-diffusion Fokker-Planck equation Pavlov et al. · Physical Review A
- Evaluation of simulators for x-ray speckle-based phase contrast imaging Quénot et al. · Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Imagerie en contraste de phase par source synchrotron appliquée à l’étude anatomique de la vascularisation de la main Cruz et al. · Morphologie
- Implicit tracking approach for X-ray phase-contrast imaging with a random mask and a conventional system Quénot et al. · Optica
- Lattice kinetic model of 3D flow characterization in core samples via synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography Kakouie et al. · Computers & Geosciences
- Multimodal Imaging with NanoGd Reveals Spatiotemporal Features of Neuroinflammation after Experimental Stroke Hubert et al. · Advanced Science
- Synchrotron phase-contrast imaging applied to the anatomical study of the hand and its vascularization Solé Cruz et al. · Journal of Anatomy
- Towards x-ray phase contrast tomography in clinical conditions: simulation and phase retrieval development Quénot et al. · Medical Imaging 2021: Physics of Medical Imaging · conference paper
- Tracking cells in the brain of small animals using synchrotron multi-spectral phase contrast imaging Tavakoli et al. · Medical Imaging 2021: Physics of Medical Imaging · conference paper
2020
- Comparison of X-ray speckle based imaging deflection retrieval algorithms for the optimization of radiation dose. Rouge-Labriet et al. · Physics in medicine and biology
- Synchrotron X-ray boost delivered by Microbeam Radiation Therapy after conventional X-ray therapy fractionated in time improves F98 glioma control. Potez et al. · International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
- X-ray Phase Contrast osteo-articular imaging: a pilot study on cadaveric human hands Rougé-Labriet et al. · Scientific Reports
- X-ray multi-modal intrinsic-speckle-tracking Pavlov et al. · Journal of Optics
2019
- 3D histopathology speckle phase contrast imaging: From synchrotron to conventional sources Labriet et al. · Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · conference paper
- Single-shot x-ray speckle-based imaging of a single-material object Pavlov et al. · — · preprint
2018
- Dosimetry for synchrotron imaging techniques — · conference paper
- Quantitative Assessment of Degenerative Cartilage and Subchondral Bony Lesions in a Preserved Cadaveric Knee: Propagation-Based Phase-Contrast CT Versus Conventional MRI and CT. Geith et al. · AJR. American journal of roentgenology
- Significant dose reduction using synchrotron radiation computed tomography: first clinical case and application to high resolution CT exams. Labriet et al. · Scientific reports
- Single-image geometric-flow x-ray speckle tracking Paganin et al. · Physical Review A
- Virtual histology of animal and human brains with Alzheimer's disease — · conference paper
2017
- Fast Granulometry Operator for the 3D Identification of Cell Structures Brun et al. · Fundamenta Informaticae
- The ID21 X-ray and infrared microscopy beamline at the ESRF: Status and recent applications to artistic materials Cotte et al. · Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
- X-ray tomography investigations of mono-sized sphere packing structures in cylindrical containers Reimann et al. · Powder Technology
2016
- A Novel and Sensitive Approach for the Evaluation of Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury After Liver Transplantation. Brandlhuber et al. · —
- A method for high-energy, low-dose mammography using edge illumination x-ray phase-contrast imaging Diemoz et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology
- Detection of Post-Therapeutic Effects in Breast Carcinoma Using Hard X-Ray Index of Refraction Computed Tomography - A Feasibility Study. Grandl et al. · —
- In vivo pink-beam imaging and fast alignment procedure for rat brain tumor radiation therapy. Nemoz et al. · —
- Revealing metallic ink in Herculaneum papyri Brun et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Tracking ink composition on Herculaneum papyrus scrolls: quantification and speciation of lead by X-ray based techniques and Monte Carlo simulations. Tack et al. · —
2015
- A single-image method for x-ray refractive index CT Mittone et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology
- High contrast microstructural visualization of natural acellular matrices by means of phase-based x-ray tomography Hagen et al. · Sci. Rep.
- Microstructure of out-of-pile annealed neutron irradiated beryllium studied by X-ray tomography Vladimirov et al. · Acta Materialia
- Pebble bed structures in the vicinity of concave and convex walls Reimann et al. · Fusion Engineering and Design
- Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging Mocella, Brun, Ferrero & Delattre · Nat Comms
- Single-image phase retrieval using an edge illumination X-ray phase-contrast imaging setup Diemoz et al. · J Synchrotron Radiat
- Synchrotron X-ray boost delivered by Microbeam Radiation Therapy improves glioma control after conventional fractionated X-ray therapy — · conference paper
2014
- A dictionary learning approach with overlap for the low dose computed tomography reconstruction and its vectorial application to differential phase tomography Mirone et al. · PLoS ONE
- Breast tumor segmentation in high resolution x-ray phase contrast analyzer based computed tomography Brun et al. · Medical Physics
- Cartilage and soft tissue imaging using X-rays: Propagation-based phase-contrast computed tomography of the Human Knee in comparison with clinical imaging techniques and histology Horng et al. · Investigative Radiology
- PyHST2: an hybrid distributed code for high speed tomographic reconstruction with iterative reconstruction and a priori knowledge capabilities Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
- The PyHST2 hybrid distributed code for high speed tomographic reconstruction with iterative reconstruction and a priori knowledge capabilities Mirone et al. · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
- Tomographic reconstruction of the refractive index with hard X-rays: An efficient method based on the gradient vector-field approach Gasilov et al. · Optics Express
2013
- An efficient numerical tool for dose deposition prediction applied to synchrotron medical imaging and radiation therapy Mittone et al. · Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
- Conjugate heat transfer in metal foam: Gravity driven and forced flowheat exchange coefficients determination Hugo et al. · Journal of Porous Media
- New imaging technology lowers radiation dose in breast scans Coan et al. · SPIE Newsroom
- On the possibility of quantitative refractive-index tomography of large biomedical samples with hard X-rays Gasilov et al. · Biomedical Optics Express
- Synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy induces hypoxia in intracerebral gliosarcoma but not in the normal brain Bouchet et al. · Radiotherapy and Oncology
2012
- A local level-set method using a hash table data structure Brun et al. · Journal of Computational Physics
- Determination of effective transport properties of metallic foams: Morphology and flow laws Single and Two-Phase Flows on Chemical and Biomedical Engineering · book
- High-resolution breast tomography at high energy: A feasibility study of phase contrast imaging on a whole breast Sztrókay et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology
- High-resolution, low-dose phase contrast X-ray tomography for 3D diagnosis of human breast cancers Zhao et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Impact of different confluent fluid streams viscosities on interconnected porous static mixer device Vicente et al. · Chemical Engineering Science
- Numerical prediction of the radiative behavior of metallic foams from the microscopic to macroscopic scale Rousseau et al. · Journal of Physics: Conference Series · conference paper
- Structural properties of rutile TiO 2 nanoparticles accumulated in a model of gastrointestinal epithelium elucidated by micro-beam x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy Veronesi et al. · Applied Physics Letters
2011
- Imaging of the angular-dependent coherent-scatter cross section with analyzer crystal: A Monte Carlo simulation Optics Letters
- SU‐E‐I‐144: Radiation Dose Reduction in Monochromatic Phase Contrast X‐Ray Mammography Using Equally Sloped Tomography Zhao et al. · Medical Physics
2010
- Conjugate heat and mass transfer in metal foams: A numerical study for heat exchangers design Hugo et al. · Defect and Diffusion Forum
- From pore scale numerical simulation of conjugate heat transfer in cellular material to effectives transport properties of real structures Hugo et al. · 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 14 · conference paper
- Volumetric segmentation of trabecular bone into rods and plates: A new method based on local shape classification Brun et al. · Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · conference paper
2009
- Microstructure and transport properties of cellular materials: Representative volume element Brun et al. · Advanced Engineering Materials
2008
- Characterization of the full thermal conductivity tensor of anisotropic metal foams - influence of the fluid phase MetFoam 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams · conference paper
- FROM 3D IMAGING OF STRUCTURES TO DIFFUSIVE PROPERTIES OF ANISOTROPIC CELLULAR MATERIALS — · conference paper
- Geometrical measurement of real foams from 3D images MetFoam 2007 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams · conference paper
2007
- Restoration of variable area soundtracks Brun et al. · Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP · conference paper