{"id":952,"date":"2014-09-26T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T08:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/?p=952"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T12:20:05","slug":"nanoct-of-a-toothpick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/nanoct-of-a-toothpick\/","title":{"rendered":"NanoCT of a toothpick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This example puts a nanoCT scan into perspective, as the 550 nm resolution allows a field of view of up to about 1 mm, allowing the tip of a toothpick for example to be analyzed in full 3D. This is why this is also called a 3D X-ray microscope. See below some images and videos of the internal structure (wood cell walls), including a wall thickness analysis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-955\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-1.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick mode3 long_rar 1\" width=\"701\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-1.jpg 701w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-2.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick mode3 long_rar 2\" width=\"701\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-2.jpg 701w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-2-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-957\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-3-1024x733.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick mode3 long_rar 3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-3-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-3-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-958\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-4-1024x741.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick mode3 long_rar 4\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-4-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-4-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-mode3-long_rar-4.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/wall-thickness-of-toothpick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-959\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/wall-thickness-of-toothpick-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"wall thickness of toothpick\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/wall-thickness-of-toothpick-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/wall-thickness-of-toothpick-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video with wall thickness analysis: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick-video1.wmv\">toothpick video1<\/a><br \/>\nVideo with good visualization: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/files\/2014\/09\/toothpick_anim.mp4\">toothpick_anim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This example puts a nanoCT scan into perspective, as the 550 nm resolution allows a field of view of up to about 1 mm, allowing the tip of a toothpick for example to be analyzed in full 3D. This is why this is also called a 3D X-ray microscope. See below some images and videos &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/nanoct-of-a-toothpick\/\">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":[41657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials-biological","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/ctscanner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}