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Letter

Nature Materials 7, 134–137 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2096

Hard-X-ray dark-field imaging using a grating interferometer

F. Pfeiffer , M. Bech , O. Bunk , P. Kraft , E. F. Eikenberry , Ch. Br|[ouml]|nnimann , C. Gr|[uuml]|nzweig & C. David

Imaging with visible light today uses numerous contrast mechanisms, including bright- and dark-field contrast, phase-contrast schemes and confocal and fluorescence-based methods. X-ray imaging, on the other hand, has only recently seen the development of an analogous variety of contrast modalities.