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@inproceedings{cianciosi:medsi2020-moio02, author = {F. Cianciosi and A.-L. Buisson and P. Tafforeau and P. Van Vaerenbergh}, title = {{BM18, the New ESRF-EBS Beamline for Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography}}, booktitle = {Proc. MEDSI'20}, pages = {1--5}, eid = {MOIO02}, language = {english}, keywords = {SRF, detector, experiment, vacuum, GUI}, venue = {Chicago, IL, USA}, series = {Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation}, number = {11}, publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland}, month = {10}, year = {2021}, issn = {2673-5520}, isbn = {978-3-95450-229-5}, doi = {10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2020-MOIO02}, url = {https://jacow.org/medsi2020/papers/moio02.pdf}, note = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2020-MOIO02}, abstract = {{BM18 is an ESRF-EBS beamline for hierarchical tomography, it will combine sub-micron precision and the possibility to scan very large samples. The applications will include biomedical imaging, material sciences and cultural heritage. It will allow the complete scanning of a post-mortem human body at 25 µm, with the ability to zoom-in in any location to 0.7 µm. BM18 is exploiting the high-energy-coherence beam of the new EBS storage ring. The X-ray source is a short tripole wiggler that gives a 300mm-wide beam at the sample position placed 172m away from the source. Due to this beam size, nearly all of the instruments are devel-oped in-house. A new building was constructed to ac-commodate the largest synchrotron white-beam Experi-mental Hutch worldwide (42x5-6m). The main optical components are refractive lenses, slits, filters and a chop-per. There is no crystal monochromator present but the combination of the optical elements will provide high quality filtered white beams, as well as an inline mono-chromator system. The energy will span from 25 to 350 keV. The Experimental Hutch is connected by a 120m long UHV pipe with a large window at the end, followed by a last set of slits. The sample stage can position, rotate and monitor with sub-micron precision samples up to 2,5x0.6m (H x Diam.) and 300kg. The resulting machine is 4x3x5m and weighs 50 tons. The girder for detectors carries up to 9 detectors on individual 2-axis stages. It moves on air-pads on a precision marble floor up to 38m behind the sample stage to perform phase contrast imag-ing at a very high energy on large objects. The commissioning is scheduled for the beginning of 2022; the first ’friendly users’ are expected in March 2022 and the full operation will start in September 2022.}}, }