{"id":456,"date":"2013-10-01T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/?p=456"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T12:33:34","slug":"analyzing-a-matchstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/analyzing-a-matchstick\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing a matchstick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple easy to understand example of what microCT scans can visualize. Everyone understands what a matchstick is composed of &#8211; a blob of dense material on top of a wooden stick. The full 3D data set shows inclusions (dense particles) inside the dense blob and the wood structure is visible (wood cells). The first image is a normal x-ray image, followed by full 3D CT images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/normal-x-ray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-457\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/normal-x-ray-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"normal x ray\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/normal-x-ray-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/normal-x-ray-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/normal-x-ray-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/normal-x-ray.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/skice-side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-458\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/skice-side-300x89.jpg\" alt=\"skice side\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/skice-side-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/skice-side-1024x304.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/skice-side.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/slice-bottom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-459\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/slice-bottom-300x89.jpg\" alt=\"slice bottom\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/slice-bottom-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/slice-bottom-1024x304.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2013\/10\/slice-bottom.jpg 1387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: this was a quick scan to demonstrate the principle only, higher quality and lower noise is possible with longer scan times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple easy to understand example of what microCT scans can visualize. Everyone understands what a matchstick is composed of &#8211; a blob of dense material on top of a wooden stick. The full 3D data set shows inclusions (dense particles) inside the dense blob and the wood structure is visible (wood cells). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/analyzing-a-matchstick\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}