MMX-I: data-processing software for multimodal X-ray imaging and tomography

J Synchrotron Radiat. 2016 May;23(Pt 3):783-94. doi: 10.1107/S1600577516003052. Epub 2016 Apr 12.

Abstract

A new multi-platform freeware has been developed for the processing and reconstruction of scanning multi-technique X-ray imaging and tomography datasets. The software platform aims to treat different scanning imaging techniques: X-ray fluorescence, phase, absorption and dark field and any of their combinations, thus providing an easy-to-use data processing tool for the X-ray imaging user community. A dedicated data input stream copes with the input and management of large datasets (several hundred GB) collected during a typical multi-technique fast scan at the Nanoscopium beamline and even on a standard PC. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first software tool that aims at treating all of the modalities of scanning multi-technique imaging and tomography experiments.

Keywords: phase retrieval; scanning X-ray tomography; scanning multimodal X-ray imaging; tomographic reconstruction.

MeSH terms

  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Radiography
  • Software*
  • Synchrotrons
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • X-Rays