PhD position: A/Prof Kaye Morgan

Conventional x-ray imaging is firmly established as an invaluable tool in medicine, security, research and manufacturing. However, conventional methods extract only a fraction of the sample information that is encoded in the x-ray wavefield as it passes through the sample. My research aims to tap into the wavefield phase to reveal weakly-attenuating objects like the lungs that are almost invisible in conventional imaging, and to access a complementary ‘dark-field’ signal that originates from tiny sample structures. We do this by designing and implementing novel experimental set-ups and analytical imaging methods, then working with collaborators to apply these methods to biomedical research, diagnostic imaging and beyond. Research projects vary from purely theoretical, to computational, experimental and applied. My students regularly visit the Australian Synchrotron and the SPring-8 synchrotron in Japan to collect images, and we have an ongoing close collaborations with groups in Germany, New Zealand and Italy.

• "Structuring x-ray light to investigate the macro and microscale "
• "Dark-field x-ray imaging without optics "
• "Adding time to the X-ray Fokker-Planck Equation " (with Prof David Paganin)
• "Translating new x-ray imaging techniques from the synchrotron to the laboratory " (with A/Prof Marcus Kitchen)
• "Transforming cancer imaging with x-ray phase contrast "

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