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Recent Development of Cone-Beam X-Ray Microtomography at Sunyab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

S.J. Pan
Affiliation:
AMIL, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY14260USA
A. Shih
Affiliation:
AMIL, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY14260USA
W.S. Liou
Affiliation:
AMIL, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY14260USA
M.S. Park
Affiliation:
AMIL, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY14260USA
G. Wang
Affiliation:
Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA52242, USA
B.A. Bohne
Affiliation:
Dept. of Otolaryngology, Washington Univ. Medical School, St. Louis, MO63110, USA
S.P. Newberry
Affiliation:
CBI Labs, Box 11, S. Wescott Rd, Schenectady, NY12306, USA
H. Kim
Affiliation:
Dept. of Material Sciences and Eng., Kwangju Inst, of Science and Technology, Korea
P.C. Cheng
Affiliation:
AMIL, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY14260USA
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An experimental X-ray cone-beam microtomographic imaging system utilizing a generalized Feldkamp reconstruction algorithm has been developed in our laboratory. This microtomographic imaging system consists of a conventional dental X-ray source (Aztech 65, Boulder, CO), a sample position and rotation stage, an X-ray scintillation phosphor screen, and a high resolution slow scan cooled CCD camera (Kodak KAF 1400). A generalized Feldkamp cone-beam algorithm was used to perform tomographic reconstruction from cone-beam projection data. This algorithm was developed for various hardware configuration to perform reconstruction of spherical, rod-shaped and plate-like specimen.

A test sample consists of 8 glass beads (approx. 800μm in diameter) dispersed in an epoxy-filled #0 gelatin capsule. One hundred X-ray projection images were captured equal angularly (at 3.6 degree spacing) by the cooled CCD camera at a of 1317×967 (17×17mm2) pixels with 12-bit dynamic range. Figure 1 shows a 3D isosurface rendering of the test sample. The eight glass beads and trapped air bubbles (arrows) in the epoxy resin (e) are clearly visible.

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Computational Advances and Enabling Technologies for 3D Microscopies in Biology
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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