[NHCOLL-L:1627] Digital X-ray images?

[Jim Croft]

One of our projects has involved the production of low intensity x-ray film 
images of leaves of rainforest trees and shrubs to sow details of vascular 
tissue that is often occluded by various layers of other tissue in fresh or 
dried material.

This is a fairly standard technique not uncommonly used in 
botany.  Traditionally images have been captured on b&w contact film which 
makes the process a bit messy, expensive and time consuming.

Given that the ultimate destination of these images is digital media, I was 
wondering if there is any reasonably priced technology out there that would 
enable us to capture the x-ray images of internal leaf structure directly 
to a digital camera, bypassing the chemical film intermediate step completely.

Is there any other high throughput technology that can achieve the same or 
similar result?

jim

~ Jim Croft ~ jrc at anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~