High-throughput x-ray microtomography system at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 2-BM

Francesco De Carlo; Brian Tieman

doi:10.1117/12.559223

26 October 2004 High-throughput x-ray microtomography system at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 2-BM

Francesco De Carlo, Brian Tieman

Proceedings Volume 5535, Developments in X-Ray Tomography IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559223
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

X-ray microtomography is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for three-dimensional (3D) imaging of thick structures at the 1-10 µm scale. The fast microtomography system developed at beamline 2-BM of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a new class of instrument offering near video-rate acquisition of tomographic data combined with pipelined processing, reconstruction, and visualization. This system can acquire and reconstruct 720 projections (1024x1024 pixels) at 0.25 deg angular increments in under 5 min using a dedicated 32-node computer cluster. At this throughput, hundreds of specimens can be imaged in a 24 h experiment. Alternatively, time-dependent 3D sample evolution can be studied on practical time scales. In this work, we present the current instrument status and the most recent application.

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Francesco De Carlo and Brian Tieman "High-throughput x-ray microtomography system at the Advanced Photon Source beamline 2-BM", Proc. SPIE 5535, Developments in X-Ray Tomography IV, (26 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559223

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