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: 0345710
• 负责人: William Carlson
• 金额: $ 89.71万
• 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: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0345710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facility; Support; Resolution; ray; Computed

EAR-0345710CarlsonThis project supports continued operation of the University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility (UTCT). UTCT provides geoscience investigators with tomographic imaging and analysis services - the industrial equivalent of medical CAT scanning, but using higher-energy X-rays, higher-resolution detectors, and longer dosage times. Three-dimensional tomographic imagery of the interiors and exteriors of rocks, fossils, meteorites and other materials allows both qualitative and quantitative characterization of these objects, producing unique opportunities for their visualization and measurement. These results will continue to drive scientific advances across the full spectrum of the earth sciences, including petrology, paleontology, structural geology, hydrology, geophysics, meteoritics, and economic and petroleum geology. Applications in biology, anthropology, and engineering are also actively supported by UTCT. Each year the facility will support the research efforts of scores of investigators from across the nation, including both students and established scientists from academic, industrial, and governmental institutions. At the same time, UTCT will maintain state-of-the-art capabilities and continue developing new means and methods to optimize and exploit CT imagery for scientific research. It will carry on in its role as a research crossroads, where interaction, collaboration, and intellectual cross-fertilization are fostered among investigators working on diverse problems that share mutual solutions. ***

该项目支持德克萨斯大学高分辨率X射线计算机断层扫描设备（UTCT）的持续运行。 UTCT为地球科学调查人员提供断层成像和分析服务-相当于医学CAT扫描的工业，但使用更高能量的X射线，更高分辨率的探测器和更长的剂量时间。岩石、化石、陨石和其他材料的内部和外部的三维断层成像允许对这些物体进行定性和定量表征，为它们的可视化和测量提供了独特的机会。 这些成果将继续推动地球科学的全方位科学进步，包括岩石学、古生物学、构造地质学、水文学、地球物理学、陨石学以及经济和石油地质学。 UTCT也积极支持生物学、人类学和工程学方面的应用。 每年，该设施将支持来自全国各地的数十名研究人员的研究工作，包括来自学术，工业和政府机构的学生和知名科学家。 同时，UTCT将保持最先进的能力，并继续开发新的手段和方法，以优化和利用CT图像进行科学研究。 它将继续发挥其作为研究十字路口的作用，在研究人员之间开展互动，合作和智力交流，促进研究人员共同解决各种问题。***