Scientific merits and analytical challenges of tree‐ring densitometry

J Björklund, G von Arx, D Nievergelt… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray microdensitometry on annually resolved tree‐ring samples has gained an exceptional
position in last‐millennium paleoclimatology through the maximum latewood density (MXD) …

HECTOR: A 240kV micro-CT setup optimized for research

B Masschaele, M Dierick, D Van Loo… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray micro-CT has become a very powerful and common tool for non-destructive three-
dimensional (3D) visualization and analysis of objects. Many systems are commercially …

An exploratory study of contrast agents for soft tissue visualization by means of high resolution X‐ray computed tomography imaging

E Pauwels, D Van Loo, P Cornillie… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
High resolution X‐ray computed tomography (CT), or microCT, is a promising and already
widely used technique in various scientific fields. Also for histological purposes it has great …

Recent micro-CT scanner developments at UGCT

M Dierick, D Van Loo, B Masschaele… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper describes two X-ray micro-CT scanners which were recently developed to extend
the experimental possibilities of microtomography research at the Centre for X-ray …

Soft tissue discrimination with contrast agents using micro-CT scanning

E Descamps, A Sochacka, B De Kegel… - Belgian Journal of …, 2014 - biblio.ugent.be
The use of high resolution, three-dimensional visualization has been receiving a growing
interest within life sciences, with non-invasive imaging tools becoming more readily …

FleXCT: a flexible X-ray CT scanner with 10 degrees of freedom

B De Samber, J Renders, T Elberfeld, Y Maris… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Laboratory based X-ray micro-CT is a non-destructive testing method that enables three
dimensional visualization and analysis of the internal and external morphology of samples …

Advanced X-ray CT scanning can boost tree ring research for earth system sciences

J Van den Bulcke, MA Boone, J Dhaene… - Annals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Tree rings, as archives of the past and biosensors of the
present, offer unique opportunities to study influences of the fluctuating environment over …

3D tree-ring analysis using helical X-ray tomography

J Van den Bulcke, ELG Wernersson, M Dierick… - …, 2014 - Elsevier
The current state-of-the-art of tree-ring analysis and densitometry is still mainly limited to two
dimensions and mostly requires proper treatment of the surface of the samples. In this paper …

A novel beam hardening correction method requiring no prior knowledge, incorporated in an iterative reconstruction algorithm

L Brabant, E Pauwels, M Dierick, D Van Loo… - Ndt & E …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel beam hardening correction algorithm for X-ray computed
tomography which can be used in case no information about the beam spectrum or the …

Swelling interactions of earlywood and latewood across a growth ring: global and local deformations

A Patera, J Van den Bulcke, MN Boone… - Wood science and …, 2018 - Springer
The sorption and swelling behavior of heterogeneous spruce wood samples is documented
with high-resolution phase-contrast X-ray tomography combined with a dynamic vapor …