High cone-angle x-ray computed micro-tomography with 186 GigaVoxel datasets

Glenn R. Myers; Shane J. Latham; Andrew M. Kingston; Jan Kolomazník; Václav Krajíček; Tomáš Krupka; Trond K. Varslot; Adrian P. Sheppard

doi:10.1117/12.2238258

4 October 2016 High cone-angle x-ray computed micro-tomography with 186 GigaVoxel datasets

Glenn R. Myers, Shane J. Latham, Andrew M. Kingston, Jan Kolomazník, Václav Krajíček, Tomáš Krupka, Trond K. Varslot, Adrian P. Sheppard

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Proceedings Volume 9967, Developments in X-Ray Tomography X; 99670U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238258
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

X-ray computed micro-tomography systems are able to collect data with sub-micron resolution. This high- resolution imaging has many applications but is particularly important in the study of porous materials, where the sub-micron structure can dictate large-scale physical properties (e.g. carbonates, shales, or human bone). Sample preparation and mounting become diffiult for these materials below 2mm diameter: consequently, a typical ultra-micro-CT reconstruction volume (with sub-micron resolution) will be around 3k x 3k x 10k voxels, with some reconstructions becoming much larger. In this paper, we discuss the hardware (MPI-parallel CPU/GPU) and software (python/C++/CUDA) tools used at the ANU CTlab to reconstruct ~186 GigaVoxel datasets.

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Glenn R. Myers, Shane J. Latham, Andrew M. Kingston, Jan Kolomazník, Václav Krajíček, Tomáš Krupka, Trond K. Varslot, and Adrian P. Sheppard "High cone-angle x-ray computed micro-tomography with 186 GigaVoxel datasets", Proc. SPIE 9967, Developments in X-Ray Tomography X, 99670U (4 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238258

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