Acquisition of a High Resolution X-Ray Tomographic Scanner

9406258卡尔森这笔赠款为德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校购买高分辨率X射线计算机断层扫描(CT)扫描仪提供部分支持，用于对变质纹理、脊椎动物古生物学和生理人类学进行创新的亚毫米级研究。高分辨率CT仪器的最新进展，特别是在X射线聚焦和模块化探测器设计方面的进展，加上为跨平台使用开发的复杂图像处理软件，将使许多地质材料能够进行前所未有的、高分辨率、非破坏性的三维成像，这些材料的数字将迅速并以易于更换的格式提供。这些数据将向感兴趣的研究人员提供，既有部门间的，也有区域的和更远的。这一设施将允许分析样本大小差异很大的各种地质材料，从而具有在变质岩石学和无脊椎动物古生物学方面取得新进展的巨大潜力，学术研究人员将以大大低于商业可用高分辨率CT仪器时间的成本获得这些新进展。***

9406258 Carlson This grant provides partial support for the acquisition of a high-resolution, X-ray, computed tomography (CT) scanner for innovative, sub- millimeter scale studies of metamorphic textures, vertebrate paleontology and physical anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin. Recent advances in high resolution CT instruments, especially with regard to X-ray focusing and modular detector design, together with sophisticated image processing software developed for cross-platform usage, will allow unprecedented, high resolution, non-destructive 3- D imaging of many geologic materials for which digital will be available both rapidly and in formats that are readily exchangeable. These data will be made available for interested researchers both interdepartmentally as well regionally and further afield. This facility will allow analysis of a wide range of geologic materials of greatly varying sample size and thus has great potential for new advances in metamorphic petrology and invertebrate paleontology that will available to academic researchers at costs which will be substantially below commercially available, high resolution CT instrument time. ***