TF Instruments

Our Technology

TF Instruments controls key patents on several methods for x-ray phase imaging.  All of our techniques are based on commercially available x-ray components for near-term deployment in laboratory settings.  The most promising uses a Hartmann-Shack Wavefront Sensor along with a high-output line-focus x-ray source.

TF Instruments' mammography scanner will have the ability to image soft tissue lesions directly, even with dense breast tissue.

The Difference

TF Instruments is developing x-ray phase-imaging platforms for the medical research, clinical mammography, and industrial non-destructive testing markets.  Our goal is to have the results of our medical scan lead to an automated evaluation of disease/health state.  This is quite beyond “computer-aided diagnosis” and much more akin to machine vision, as the density of each tissue type scanned is directly measured and displayed.

TF Instruments will manufacture a low-cost x-ray lens array that when combined with analysis software will yield a quantified 3-D map of soft tissue density.  This is a completely new type of computed tomography, measuring and presenting the tissue's refractive index and absorption.