  X-ray phase-contrast imaging can provide greatly improved contrast over
conventional absorption-based imaging for weakly absorbing samples, such as
biological soft tissues and fibre composites. In this manuscript, we introduce
an easy and fast way to develop a user-friendly software platform dedicated to
the new grating-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging setup recently built at the
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory of the University of Science and
Technology of China. Unified management and control of 21 motorized positioning
stages, of an ultra-precision piezoelectric translation stage and of the X-ray
tube are achieved with this platform. The software package also covers the
automatic image acquisition of the phase-stepping scanning with a flat panel
detector. Moreover, a data post-processing module for signals retrieval and
other custom features are in principle available. With a seamless integration
of all necessary functions in a unique package, this software platform will
greatly support the user activity during experimental runs.
