The object
Zhentian Wang co-invented phase-contrast X-ray imaging hardware for breast imaging. The system retrieves absorption, phase and scattering information to improve soft-tissue contrast; Wang's continued work spans phase-contrast and scattering imaging systems for biomedical and materials applications.
What Zhentian did
Co-invented phase-contrast X-ray imaging hardware for breast imaging with Marco Stampanoni and the GratXray team.
Why it matters
The work helped establish a grating-based physical imaging system that can supply information beyond conventional absorption mammography.
Living-status check
Tsinghua University's current faculty profile says Wang has been a tenured associate professor since September 2021, and a PubMed-indexed 10 September 2024 paper lists him at Tsinghua's particle-and-radiation-imaging laboratory.