Together with a whole bunch of my colleagues I've published a new paper in Scientific Reports, called "High-energy X-ray phase-contrast CT of an adult human chest phantom". This is based on work we did with the IMPACT collaboration to test the feasibility of phase-contrast lung imaging at the Australian Synchrotron's Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL).
Using a LungMan phantom and the Eiger2 detector from DECTRIS, we showed that strong phase-contrast effects are present at the high energies needed for lung imaging, and optimised the imaging parameters to achieve a dose reduction factor of 160 compared to conventional absorption imaging.
This work has been in the making for a long time, and I am especially grateful to Lorenzo D'Amico and Henriette Bast for their help in getting it over the line.