Laboratory Details

INGV-OV

The INGV-OV X-ray micro-CT Laboratory includes a Xradia 410 Versa 3D microscope equipped with a microfocus X-ray source capable of energies from 40 to 150 kV, which allows the scanning of samples with a wide range of densities. The detectors are mounted on microscope objectives with magnifications ranging from 0.4X to 20X; the former yields a field-of-view of ~55 mm, whereas the latter yields ~1 mm. Thus, the spatial resolution for the microXCT ranges from ~55 μm to 0.9 μm. The microXCT scanner also offers the advantage of enhanced phase contrast to better image materials with low mean-atomic numbers. INGV laboratory includes device (Deben in-situ load cell stage CT5000H250) to perform high temperature-high pressure in-situ experiments and time-resolved (4D) imaging as well as dedicated software packages for the visualization and quantitative analysis of 3D digital maps and pore-scale numerical simulations for fluid transport properties prediction.

Processing and acquisition software available at facility:

• Zeiss Scout & Scan
• Zeiss XRM reconstructor
• PerGeos
• Dragonfly
• ORS
• ImageJ
• Python libraries
• 3DViewer