Publications by authors named "S Rutishauser"

We present single-shot measurements of the longitudinal photon source position of the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact Free Electron Laser x-ray free electron laser by means of x-ray grating interferometry. The measurements were performed in order to study the behavior of the source under normal operation conditions and as a dependence on the active undulator length. The retrieved experimental results show that x-ray grating interferometry is a powerful in situ monitoring tool for investigating and tuning an x-ray free electron laser.

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Microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH) is a detoxifying enzyme for xenobiotic compounds. Enzymatic activity of mEH can be greatly increased by a point mutation, leading to an E404D amino acid exchange in its catalytic triad. Surprisingly, this variant is not found in any vertebrate species, despite the obvious advantage of accelerated detoxification.

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The knowledge of the X-ray wavefront is of importance for many experiments at synchrotron sources and hard X-ray free-electron lasers. We will report on metrology measurements performed at the SACLA X-ray Free Electron Laser by means of grating interferometry which allows for an at-wavelength, in-situ, and single-shot characterization of the X-ray wavefront. At SACLA the grating interferometry technique was used for the study of the X-ray optics installed upstream of the end station, two off-set mirror systems and a double crystal monochromator.

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We present a comparison for high-resolution imaging with a laboratory source between grating-based (GBI) and propagation-based (PBI) x-ray phase-contrast imaging. The comparison is done through simulations and experiments using a liquid-metal-jet x-ray microfocus source. Radiation doses required for detection in projection images are simulated as a function of the diameter of a cylindrical sample.

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