Practical Microcomputed Tomography Workshop

Description

This record presents the material of a workshop described below. It is designed for those interested in learning more about x-ray tomographic data analysis.

Workshop Title: Practical Microcomputed Tomography

Venue: Denver X-ray Conference (DXC), Aug 2024, Westminster, CO

Instructor:      Stuart R. Stock (Northwestern Univ.)

Audience: Conference attendees who have a background in x-ray characterization methods but not necessarily x-ray imaging or microComputed Tomography (microCT).

Goal: Introduce to practical numerical analysis of microCT data and the effect of data collection parameters.

Hands-on except for a brief intro to microCT and definition of terms.

Guided analyses on the participants’ own laptops. Use of ImageJ tools. Data collected beforehand by the instructor on a Skyscan 1272 system. 

The Word document describes the activities using the data files in the participants files directory. The annotated files directory has the files for the activities but they are annotated for the participants reference. 

The author thanks Luisa Arispe for use of the microCT scanner in her laboratory.

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