Breast cancer diagnosis currently requires biopsy samples to be analysed by a histopathologist; a time consuming, highly specialised process. X-ray diffraction is a quantitative technique that can distinguish between healthy and diseased breast biopsy samples using the change in proportions of fat and fibrous tissue that occurs when cancer invades. A semi-automated breast biopsy analysis system...

A high-speed X-ray diffraction technique was recently developed at the 32-ID-B beamline of the Advanced Photon Source for studying highly dynamic, yet non-repeatable and irreversible, materials processes. In experiments, the microstructure evolution in a single material event is probed by recording a series of diffraction patterns with extremely short exposure time and high frame rate. Owing to...

Manuscript received September 11, 2011 * Corresponding author; E-mail: [email protected] Abstract— The diffraction fields and the shadow of standing tree diffraction are solved by using polygons to approximately take the place and approximation as approximate substitutes of for the circle. The algorithm model of ray path tracing is computed by tracing the ray path on standing tree. Considering el...