Left: Photograph of the phase-contrast imaging arrangement as viewed from the detector: x-ray source with output window (A), radiation shielding around source and experimental arrangement (B), sample placed in a plastic cylinder and padded with plastic foam (C), rotation stage (D) and an x-ray camera (E). Right: Regions for tomographic scans. For the imaging of the hand, a total of nine tomographic scans were performed. Here, the field of view for each scan is shown. Before tomographic reconstruction, the left regions of the fourth and fifth scan from the bottom were stitched together with their respective right counterpart. The scale shows centimeters.