Applications of Medipix2 single photon detectors at the ANKA synchrotron facility

Medipix2 single photon-counting pixel detectors are nowadays confirmed as a valuable concept in different X-ray analysis and imaging techniques using either X-ray tubes or synchrotron sources. Recently, the detector pool of the ANKA synchrotron source was equipped with a set of these detectors. In this work we describe the main results obtained by applying Medipix2 single photon counting detectors to synchrotron radiation methods. The results were obtained at the TopoTomo beamline whose X-ray tuneability in energy and flux allows a detailed characterization of different sensor materials, the energy calibration of detector arrays and the application of different imaging methods.