Project Objectives:

Capture x-ray images that demonstrate the advantages of phase-contrast CT for lung cancer detection, using the Imaging and Medical Beamline at the Australian Synchrotron.

Directions of investigation include:

1. Improved lung cancer screening, using whole lung imaging.
2. Improved non-invasive characterisation of suspicious areas in the lung, using region-of-interest imaging.
3. Time-resolved imaging approaches to take into account or utilise the movement of the lungs.
4. Innovative imaging methodologies and methods of image analysis customised for the lungs.

Project Leaders:

Dr Kaye Morgan, Monash University

Associate Professor Marcus Kitchen, Monash University

Experimental Hall of the Australian Synchrotron, the facility that creates the bright and coherent x-rays we will use to develop new methods of imaging lung cancer.

Experimental Station, IMBL, Australian Synchrotron, where we will install new imaging set-ups for high-resolution, high-sensitivity imaging of lung cancer.