Sentences with word «microtomography»

Isabelle Kruta of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, and colleagues used a technique called synchrotron X-ray microtomography to create 3D images of Baculites, an ammonite genus common in the Cretaceous.
C: with propagation phase contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography (PPC - SR - µCT) 265 bones are visible.
The organic origin (biogenicity) of the samples was confirmed using an ion probe to measure the different sulfur isotopes, while X-ray microtomography revealed their internal and external structures.
At the beamline ID19, the researchers performed microtomography, which enabled them to continually image their EPP foams (see figure above) as they were slowly compressed with a dedicated press facility.
The SIMaP team used X-ray 3D microtomography on ID19 on commercial and test fuses to understand the interaction between electrical arcs and matter.
A: with conventional microtomography (µCT) 21 bones are visible.
An international team of researchers, including Sophie Sanchez at Uppsala University / SciLifeLab, have now used synchrotron microtomography to answer this question without destroying the precious fossils.
Using X-ray microtomography, the team found muscle fibers within the spines, suggesting that, although the protrusions are believed to be defensive, they may also provide support for the ants» particularly large heads and help them to carry heavier objects.
To find such tiny fossils the team used X-ray microtomography, a special technique that uses X-rays to create a virtual, 3D model of something without destroying the original object.
The researchers used X-ray microtomography to examine two different wing bones — the humerus, or upper arm bone, and a lower arm bone called the ulna — in three Archaeopteryx fossils.
Anné says the use of nondestructive techniques such as x-ray microtomography is having a significant impact on paleopathology.
The geometry was generated using data from a polycrystalline titanium sample that was scanned using X-ray microtomography.
They scanned the two arm bones with x-ray microtomography, looking both along the length and then taking cross-sections within the bones.
In order to ascertain the integrity of the fossil, the specimen was visualised and reconstructed in three dimensions using synchrotron multi-resolution X-ray microtomography.
This study technique is known as X-ray microtomography.
To create the 3D avatars, «we used X-ray microtomography, or micro-CT, which is comparable to when you go to the doctor and get a CT scan but at much higher resolution, to scan very small insects,» explains Dr. Francisco Hita Garcia, first author on the study and a member of the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at OIST.
The main significance of the team's new tool is that «the RAMS load frame insert enables applying axial loads while the specimen is continuously rotated, which means that we can integrate near - field and far - field high - energy diffraction microscopy methods and microtomography with in situ mechanical testing,» said Shade.
«Truth be told, the techniques we used to analyse it in the paper (such as synchrotron microtomography and elemental mapping) had not yet been developed when the specimen was discovered,» said Dr Knoll.
One is at the APS, where full brains can be analyzed at submicron resolution — in this case, the brain of a petite shrewmouse — through X-ray microtomography, a high - resolution 3 - D imaging technique.
This will allow for the capture of all the synaptic connections between individual neurons at small targeted regions guided by the X-ray microtomography.
Argonne's X-ray Sciences Division of the APS provides the expertise for the microtomography research.
B: with Absorption synchrotron microtomography (SR - µCT) 62 bones are visible.
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