X-Ray Phase Contrast Micro-Tomography and Its Application in Quantitative 3D Imaging Study of Wild Ginseng Characteristic Microstructures

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1234002 ◽  
Author(s):  
叶琳琳 Ye Linlin ◽  
薛艳玲 Xue Yanling ◽  
谭海 Tan Hai ◽  
陈荣昌 Chen Rongchang ◽  
戚俊成 Qi Juncheng ◽  
...  
Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2742 (1) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID PENNEY ◽  
ANDREW MCNEIL ◽  
DAVID I. GREEN ◽  
ROBERT BRADLEY ◽  
YURI M. MARUSIK ◽  
...  

A new species of the extant spider family Anapidae is described from a fossil mature male in Eocene amber from the Baltic region and tentatively assigned to the genus Balticoroma Wunderlich, 2004. Phase contrast X-ray computed micro-tomography was used to reveal important features that were impossible to view using traditional microscopy. Balticoroma wheateri new species is easily diagnosed from all other anapids by having clypeal extensions that run parallel to the ectal surface of the chelicerae and in having the metatarsus of the first leg highly reduced and modified into what is presumably a y-shaped clasping structure. Although only a single extant anapid species occurs in northern Europe, the family was diverse in the Eocene. The discovery of yet another anapid species in Baltic amber supports the idea that Eocene European forests may have been a hotspot of evolution for this family of spiders.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Maugeri ◽  
Mauro DiNuzzo ◽  
Marta Moraschi ◽  
Charles Nicaise ◽  
Inna Bukreeva ◽  
...  

Fractal analysis is a powerful method for the morphological study of complex systems that is increasingly applied to biomedical images. Spatial resolution and image segmentation are crucial for the discrimination of tissue structures at the multiscale level. In this work, we have applied fractal analysis to high-resolution X-ray phase contrast micro-tomography (XrPCμT) images in both uninjured and injured tissue of a mouse spinal cord. We estimated the fractal dimension (FD) using the box-counting method on tomographic slices segmented at different threshold levels. We observed an increased FD in the ipsilateral injured hemicord compared with the contralateral uninjured tissue, which was almost independent of the chosen threshold. Moreover, we found that images exhibited the highest fractality close to the global histogram threshold level. Finally, we showed that the FD estimate largely depends on the image histogram regardless of tissue appearance. Our results demonstrate that the pre-processing of XrPCμT images is critical to fractal analysis and the estimation of FD.


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1531-1539 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Agrawal ◽  
B. Singh ◽  
Y. S. Kashyap ◽  
M. Shukla ◽  
P. S. Sarkar ◽  
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A full-field hard X-ray imaging beamline (BL-4) was designed, developed, installed and commissioned recently at the Indus-2 synchrotron radiation source at RRCAT, Indore, India. The bending-magnet beamline is operated in monochromatic and white beam mode. A variety of imaging techniques are implemented such as high-resolution radiography, propagation- and analyzer-based phase contrast imaging, real-time imaging, absorption and phase contrast tomographyetc. First experiments on propagation-based phase contrast imaging and micro-tomography are reported.


Geosphere ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kervyn ◽  
M.N. Boone ◽  
B. van Wyk de Vries ◽  
E. Lebas ◽  
V. Cnudde ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Lauridsen ◽  
Kyriaki Glavina ◽  
Timothy David Colmer ◽  
Anders Winkel ◽  
Sarah Irvine ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Kobayashi ◽  
Koichi Izumi ◽  
Hidekazu Kimura ◽  
Shigeru Kimura ◽  
Tomoaki Ohira ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTWe have obtained the x-ray phase contrast images of the activated carbon/carbon (AC/C) composite used as electrodes in an electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC). To improve the spatial resolution, the beam size of x-ray transmitted from a sample were expanded by using asymmetric Bragg diffraction (asymmetric factor b) of analyzer crystal. Since the analyzer crystals were placed in (+, -) arrangements in both vertical and horizontal directions, the total magnification factor was 1/b2 for each direction. By using the 511 asymmetric Bragg diffraction of Si (100) analyzer with an asymmetric factor of 0.207, we could obtain the magnification factor of about 23.3. We applied this optical system to the AC/C composite. The phase contrast image corresponding to the carbon particles with the diameter of about 10 μm could be detected with the spatial resolution of 5 μm. Furthermore, we also obtained realtime images of bubble formation and movement during the overcharging of an EDLC with the time resolution of 30 frames number per second.


Author(s):  
Xavier Le Guevel ◽  
Lorenzo Massimi ◽  
Lucie Sancey ◽  
Philippe Zeitoun ◽  
Elena Longo ◽  
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