Facility Support: High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography Laboratory

设施支持：高分辨率 X 射线计算机断层扫描实验室

• 批准号: 0004082
• 负责人: William Carlson
• 金额: $ 38.63万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-03-15 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0004082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facility; Support; Resolution; Ray; Computed

0004082CarlsonThis grant provides three years of continued partial support for the operation and maintenance of the University of Texas Computed X-ray Tomography (CT) Facility as a national multi-user facility for the geosciences and ancillary fields. This facility has been supported for the last two-years by the IF program (EAR-9816020) to allow geoscientists subsidized access to the capabilities of CT for non-destructive imaging of the interiors of geological samples. Continued support will foster further use of the CT scanner at UT for investigations in a multitude of sub-fields of the geosciences including, vertebrate paleontology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, volcanology, sedimentology and stratigraphy. High resolution CT imagery will aid our understanding of, the physiology and evolution of both mammalian and non-mammalian species, crystallization processes in metamorphic environments, the paleoelevation of ancient eruptions, subsurface fluid flow, and basic materials properties. In many cases, CT imagery offers unprecedented 3-D views of geologic structures and skeletal remains that otherwise would have remained obscured to human observation. ***

0004082 Carlson该补助金为德克萨斯大学计算机X射线断层扫描（CT）设施的运营和维护提供三年的持续部分支持，该设施是地球科学和辅助领域的国家多用户设施。 该设施在过去两年中得到了IF计划（IF-9816020）的支持，以使地质科学家能够以补贴的方式获得CT的能力，对地质样品的内部进行无损成像。 持续的支持将促进UT进一步使用CT扫描仪进行地球科学众多子领域的调查，包括脊椎动物古生物学，火成岩和变质岩石学，火山学，沉积学和地层学。 高分辨率CT图像将有助于我们了解哺乳动物和非哺乳动物物种的生理和进化，变质环境中的结晶过程，古代喷发的古海拔，地下流体流动和基本材料特性。 在许多情况下，CT图像提供了前所未有的地质结构和骨骼遗骸的3D视图，否则人类观察会变得模糊。 ***