Half‑time seminar with Farangis Foroughi
Welcome to a Half-time seminar in electronics with Farangis Foroughi who will present her progress so far and remaining work on her upcoming doctoral thesis on Quantitative X-ray Imaging of Microstructure in Biological Materials.
Invited as an external reviewer is Martin Bech from Lund University. Farangis Main supervisor is Associate Prof. Börje Norlin, co-supervised by Dr. David Krapohl, Prof. Dean Chapman, USask College of Medicine in Canada and Prof. Ralf Hendrik Menk, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and Mid Sweden University.
Date: March 17, 2026
Time: 15:00 CET
Place: Zoom (Meeting ID: 637 0504 0961 Passcode: 560205)
About Farangis work
The overall aim of Farangis Foroughi’s PhD-project is to strengthen the physical interpretation of analyzerbased phase-contrast imaging by establishing quantitative relationships between measured contrast signals and underlying tissue microstructure. Particular emphasis is placed on lung imaging using Multiple Image Radiography (MIR), including the development of an alternative analysis approach and the investigation of how histological and microcomputed
tomography data can be used to model and predict MIR-derived contrast channels. A second research track focuses on the application of micro-XRF techniques to investigate elemental heterogeneity in fibrous materials, with the objective of quantifying sulfur redistribution in chemithermomechanical pulp, CTMP, under different processing conditions.