Session Moderator: Prof Diouma Kobor and Prof Simon Connell
This presentation is the context for the session.
The AfLS Roadmap toward the new large scale research infrastructure requires a well developed network of smaller but very capable national and regional level research infrastructures. These build the community, build the research infrastructure in a well distributed way across the...
An overview of the different types of X-ray imaging and analytical functions and features of Lab Scale facilities. This talk will look at tomography, molecular structure determination and various spectroscopies for analysis, quantitative imaging, scattering based techniques, diffraction topography as well as more exotic applications.
In this presentation I will describe the resources (funding and human) requested by the construction of a research infrastructure based on an Inverse Compton Scattering source like STAR, under commissioning in Calabria (South Italy) and the technological challenges that must be addressed to develop and maintain such a research infrastructure. ICS sources have a great advantage in their...
Synchrotron X-ray sources have enabled scientists to push the limits of X-ray imaging towards nanometer resolution and extremely high sensitivity. However, for many of the techniques developed, the transition from synchrotron to preclinical or even clinical imaging is not straightforward. This is mainly due to the rather different characteristics of the X-ray tube sources typically used in the...
portable X-ray fluorescence detection devices. The talk will be focus on how such instrument could participate to training and increasing African researchers skills in Xray Fluorescence detectors. What kind of applications, advantages and limits.
