Microtomography is an imaging technique based on radiography. It is the same principle as the medical scanner, but using synchrotron radiation allows to reach much higher resolution.
Synchrotron radiation leads to a parallel beam geometry.
From the acquisition of about 1500 radiographs, volume is obtained using filtered backprojection algorithm.
Demonstration
See the following page: http://bigwww.epfl.ch/demo/jtomography/
Step by step experiment document
All scans performed on ID19 are registered in a Database (First version created by Ludovic Launer in 1999). This Database contains a lot of information about acquisition like energy, exposure_time, distance between sample and detector, image of a projection, image of a slice, ...
The first version of tomoDB was improved by Véronique Chaffard and Hyacinthe Meniet in July 2004.
Access to this database is possible onsite only.
User name: guest password: tomodb
The user manual of tomoDB is available here (in French).
Using rnice cluster: see here
We use pyHST (High Speed Tomography in python version) software as reconstruction program. It has been created by Andy Hammersley and optimised by Alessandro Mirone.
The documentation of the last version of PyHST is available here: this web page
To know more about rescaling, see here
You can create an /avi file from scan projections
ImageJ: slice by slice
VGStudio: 3D rendering (Documentation)