BioXAS-Imaging
BioXAS-Imaging

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Status: 🟢 Operational


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BioXAS Sector

BioXAS is a newly commissioned beamline sector at the Canadian Light Source, comprising of three beamlines. The wiggler beamlines, BioXAS-Main and BioXAS-Side, are dedicated to X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS). The third, undulator beamline, BioXAS-Imaging, is a multi-resolution X-ray Fluorescence Imaging beamline. The BioXAS insertion devices occupy the same straight section of the storage ring but in a chicaned configuration to allow the beamlines to be operated independently.

The BioXAS-Imaging beamline is a hard X-ray fluorescence imaging beamline with two spatial resolution modes currently in operation. The beamline has a spectral energy range between 5 to 21 keV.

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Disciplines

  • Biological Science

  • Environmental Science

  • Cultural Heritage

Examples of research areas

  • Bio-distribution of essential/toxic elements

  • Metals in various brain diseases 

  • Metal-based compounds

  • Metals interaction with organisms in the environment

  • Accumulation, biotransformation, bioremediation

Techniques

  • X-ray fluorescence imaging (XFI)

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy imaging (XAS Imaging)

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments in situ (μ-XAS)


User Portal

Visit the CLS User Portal to submit a proposal, update your project, or request beamtime.

Latest Publications

Black, Tallan; Boseley, Rhiannon E.; Quirk, Amanda; Young, Kaylen M.; Lunardi-Baccetto, Sarah et al. (2026). Adult Rat Offspring Exposed to THC during Gestation Exhibit Distinct Biomolecular Changes Identified by X-ray Fluorescence Imaging and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy in Cortico-Limbic Circuits. ACS Chemical Neuroscience . 10.1021/acschemneuro.5c00752.
Deng, Ganqi; Vu, Miranda; Korbas, Malgorzata; Bondici, Viorica F.; Karunakaran, Chithra et al. (2025). The study of the variation of mineral distribution and relative concentration on varieties of oat using synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence imaging. Food Research International 221, 117546. 10.1016/j.foodres.2025.117546.
Tunc, Ayetullah; Çelik, Yakup; Fociro, Ana; Deevsalar, Reza; Wang, Xinyi et al. (2025). Distribution and speciation of uranium in pristine Tethyan phosphorites, Ionian Zone, Albania: Insights from synchrotron XRF/XANES analyses. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 277, 107808. 10.1016/j.gexplo.2025.107808.