Miniature synchrotron

Lyncean Technologies, Inc., which was founded in Palo Alto, California, in 2001 by Stanford Professor Ronald Ruth's group, recently announced that its Compact Light Source (CLS) successfully performed hard X-ray phase contrast imaging. Some results appear on the cover of the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. The CLS is a miniature synchrotron which uses inverse Compton scattering to produce high-intensity, tunable, quasi-monochromatic X-ray beams. For more information, visit the Web page, http://www.lynceantech.com Their first scientific results are published in the paper, "Hard X-ray phase-contrast imaging with the Compact Light Source based on inverse Compton X-rays", M. Bech et al., J. Synchrotron Rad. 16, 43 (2009).