Projects
A game-changing perspective on intra-seasonal wood formation dynamics using high-resolution X-ray Computed Tomography to elucidate leaf senescence and autumn dynamics of temperate deciduous trees in Europe. University of Antwerp
In support of the international travel of ethnographic collections: Identification of wood on Congolese objects using micro- and sub micron Tomography - TOCOWO Ghent University
Organizing travelling exhibitions and the circulation of artefacts on international loans is a core activity of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) in response to the museum’s mission to make the collection accessible to a large public. Importantly, the international travel of museum objects is subjected to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regulations of trade and as a ...
UGCT – Ghent University Centre for X-ray Tomography Ghent University
UGCT is a research/user facility offering external research groups and companies access to its unique combination of state-of-the-art in-house developed high-resolution X-ray CT systems and its CT expertise. The flexibility of the systems and the knowledge of the researchers involved allows to perform challenging experiments in various research fields, continuously pushing the limits of what is currently possible with CT.
New uses for X-ray Tomography in natural building stones: characterization, pathologies, and restoration of historical and recent roofing slates Ghent University
Europe is nowadays the world’s leading producer and consumer of roofing slate. Slate quarries are found in most European countries. However, despite their importance as a building stone, roofing slates are a relatively unexamined material. In comparison with other building stones, there is a lack of research and scientific publications on roofing slates.
Applying expertise in X-ray micro-Computed Tomography (MCT) for the study of roofing ...
Nanostructured materials at the atomic scale: determining the composition using quantitative analytical electron tomography. University of Antwerp
Atom probe tomography for advanced materials studies in 3D. KU Leuven
A consortium composed of research units from KU Leuven, Universiteit Hasselt and UGent has the ambition to create an atomprobe tomography user facility at the disposal for Flemisch research purposes. This emerging technology offers mind-blowing insight in the atomic composition of advanced materials or complex 3-dimensional nanostructures. This technique allows to reconstruct a digital image of the atomic composition of materials with ...
Atomic scale observation of atom distributions in 3D devices using atom probe tomography KU Leuven
The rapid growth of the semiconductor industry over the past several decades was enabled by scaling of the integrated circuits to smaller physical dimensions, which allowed to increase their performance simultaneously decreasing their cost. However, due to this decrease of dimensions, the complexity of semiconductor devices had to be increased to preserve and improve their functionality. New device architectures and additional materials are ...
Monolithic Scintillation Detectors for simultaneous time-of-flight positron emission tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging Ghent University
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a medical imaging technique that produces a three-ÂU+2010dimensional image
of functionalprocesses inthe body.
The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-ÂU+2010emitting radionuclide,
which is introduced into the body on a biologically active molecule. Multimodality imaging and,
more specifically, the combination of PET and CT has matured into an important ...
Prediction of the Effective Properties of Textile Composites based on X-ray Computed Tomography Data KU Leuven
Modelling the geometry and the mechanical properties has been an important part of the research in composite materials. Accurate models are necessary to understand the mechanical behaviour and predict structural response of composite parts and structures. This thesis aims at bridging the gap between the highly detailed 3D imaging capabilities of X-ray computed tomography (CT) and the modelling of composite materials, by developing a modelling ...