Abstract

The combination of high-brilliance x-ray sources, fast detector systems, wide-bandwidth networks, and parallel computers can substantially reduce the time required to acquire, reconstruct, and visualize high-resolution three- dimensional tomographic data sets. A quasi-realtime computed x-ray microtomography system has been implemented at the 2-BM beamline at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. With this system, a complete tomographic data set can be collected in about 15 minutes. Immediately after each projection is obtained, it is rapidly transferred to the Mathematics and Computing Sciences Division where preprocessing and reconstruction calculations are performed concurrently with the data acquisition by a SGI parallel computer. The reconstruction results, once completed, are transferred to a visualization computer that performs the volume rendering calculations. Rendered …

Date

1999

Authors

Yuxin Wang, Francesco De Carlo, Ian Foster, Joseph Insley, Carl Kesselman, Peter Lane, Gregor von Laszewski, Derrick C Mancini, Ian McNulty, Mei-Hui Su, Brian Tieman

Conference

Developments in X-ray Tomography II

Volume

3772

Pages

318-327

Publisher

SPIE