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Practical Basics and Applications of X-ray Tomography

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X-ray tomography is one of the major techniques for 3D/4D imaging of energy materials and devices. This chapter provides a general review of X-ray tomography. We start from the origin of the medical CT to explain the fundamental principle of tomography. The mathematical theories are discussed. Following that, three major strategies of tomographic reconstruction are introduced with the example algorithms. The implementations of these algorithms in open-source software are listed for the practice. In the end, we make an overview of the setup of TXM for synchrotron X-ray tomography.

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Yang, X. (2021). Practical Basics and Applications of X-ray Tomography. In: Wang, J. (eds) Advanced X-ray Imaging of Electrochemical Energy Materials and Devices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5328-5_2

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