Fusing Multi-scale and Multi-modal 3D Imaging and Characterization

Three-dimensional X-ray microscopy (XRM) has emerged as a powerful interior imaging technique that obtains information from a range of materials under a variety of conditions and environments. Recently, laboratory-based X-ray microscopes have demonstrated tomographic datasets with resolution down to 50 nm for investigation across a great span of sample dimensions from the nanoscale to the mesoscale. [1-3] It has been used to study a wide spectrum of materials from carbonate rocks to murine brains, including hierarchical structured materials. [4] This talk will present the current state of the art in laboratory X-ray microscopy at various length scales and multi-modal capabilities for XRM-SEM combined image visualization, transformation, manipulation, and analysis using commercial software package from Object Research Systems (ORS).