Tomography at the Louisiana State University CAMD synchrotron: applications to polymer blends

Leslie G. Butler; Kyunmgin Ham; Hua Jin; Richard L. Kurtz

doi:10.1117/12.452869

7 January 2002 Tomography at the Louisiana State University CAMD synchrotron: applications to polymer blends

Leslie G. Butler, Kyunmgin Ham, Hua Jin, Richard L. Kurtz

Proceedings Volume 4503, Developments in X-Ray Tomography III; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.452869
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A tomography beamline has been built recently at the LSU CAMD synchrotron. The instrument consists of a Linux/LabVIEW-controlled CCD and Macintosh/LabVIEW controlled positioning stages. The two computers communicate via LabVIEW/TCP/IP. A Macintosh G4/Linux cluster has been installed for the purpose of on-site reconstruction. Instrument alignment and reconstruction programs are written in LabView, Matlab, and IDL. Applications to date are many. The blending of flame retardants (brominated aromatics, phosphates, and antimony oxide) in high-impact polystyrene is being studied with tomography; this work complements solid-state 81Br NMR. Also, several biological samples are to be studied as part of a multi-investigator project on biological visualization and computational studies. This project gives the tomography workers close access to an ImmersaDesk R2 and other computational resources.

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Leslie G. Butler, Kyunmgin Ham, Hua Jin, and Richard L. Kurtz "Tomography at the Louisiana State University CAMD synchrotron: applications to polymer blends", Proc. SPIE 4503, Developments in X-Ray Tomography III, (7 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.452869

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