Remote computed tomography reconstruction simulation and visualisation service project

The Imaging and Medical beamline (IMBL) at the Australian Synchrotron will provide a wide range of advanced x-ray imaging techniques for the biomedical and materials science research communities. About 50 per cent of the available time on the beamline is scheduled to be devoted to 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging. CT experiments require more synchrotron time compared to conventional 2D imaging. High-resolution 3D CT reconstruction, analysis and visualisation typically also require a great deal of memory and computer power to be done on a desktop PC. This is why the CT project is being implemented.

The development of a remote CT reconstruction service is also justified by the need to have the data located close to the high-performance computing facility where the processing will be done. The very large size of typical synchrotron CT datasets, expected to be of the order of 10 GB and larger, makes it difficult to move the data over the network on demand, especially if the processing involves some interactivity as is often the case with CT reconstruction and simulation.

For a full project description please go to:
http://ct.synchrotron.org.au