
Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox
Maximize Your ZEISS X-ray Results
The Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (ART) by ZEISS is a unique platform designed to tackle complex imaging challenges in X-ray microscopy (XRM). Leveraging the ZEISS XRM team's deep expertise in X-ray physics and customer applications, ART combines advanced AI capabilities with innovative workflows. These solutions, available both in the cloud and on workstations, provide you with enhanced access, flexibility, and effective data management, ensuring that you can meet your specific imaging needs.
Built on a foundation of proven algorithms, ART fosters trust through transparency and reliability, allowing you to confidently rely on its outputs.
ZEISS DeepRecon Pro
Increased Throughput, Better Image Quality
ZEISS DeepRecon Pro brings superior throughput and image quality benefits across a wide range of applications. It uniquely harvests the hidden opportunities in big data generated by your ZEISS XRM or microCT and provides significant AI-driven speed or image quality improvements. Three one-click workflows‒Throughput (TPT), ImageClarity, and Image Quality (IQ)‒eliminate the need for a machine learning expert.
Use ZEISS DeepRecon Pro TPT to increase throughput by up to 10x without sacrificing novel resolution at a distance (RaaD). Alternatively, keep the same number of projections and enhance the image quality further. ZEISS DeepRecon Pro ImageClarity, your default, offers dramatic noise reduction without small feature loss, providing superior image quality. DeepRecon Pro IQ provides best-in-class noise reduction.
ZEISS DeepRecon Pro is included as standard with a high-performance workstation on ZEISS VersaXRM 615 and 730 platforms. It is also available on ZEISS Ultra nanoscale X-ray microscopes. For other ZEISS Versa or microCT systems, it is offered as part of the AI Supercharger or Premium ART packages, or as a standalone module, available via the cloud or workstation.
ZEISS DeepScout
Resolution at Field of View, Throughput at Field of View
ZEISS DeepScout harnesses high-resolution 3D XRM datasets to enhance lower resolution, larger field of view datasets through advanced convolutional neural network models. Using the unique XRM Scout-and-Zoom capability, DeepScout can connect resolution and contrast across scales to train powerful super resolution image restoration deep learning models.
- Take your large overview scan
- Feed it through the ZEISS DeepScout reconstruction algorithm
- Get resolution that approaches the resolution of a Zoom scan, but over a much larger field of view.
At its core, ZEISS DeepScout relies on the ability to generate multiscale, spatially registered datasets and uses that ability to train neural networks to improve the reconstruction. New capabilities, fueled by deep learning, mitigate the traditional trade-off between field of view and resolution.
DeepScout is available in the AI Supercharger and Premium ART packages, or as a standalone module, available via the cloud or workstation.
DeepScout
How It Works
Now, your volume scout includes the full field of view for your sample. A selected high-resolution scan trains the whole model to provide you with high resolution at field of view (FOV). This is game-changing AI, uniquely enabling visualization of fine structure across large fields of view at unprecedented speeds.
An A12 Smartphone Package Acquired Using DeepScout
For a large field of view scan, a high res scan to train the model, and high resolution reconstruction to LFOV.
Materials Aware Reconstruction Solution (MARS)
Superior Image Quality for Highly Attenuating Samples
MARS is a reconstruction algorithm that is aware of the constituents within a reconstruction. A challenge in X-ray reconstruction in a lab setting is that imaging with a polychromatic source creates different X-ray energies to generate a phenomenon called beam hardening. This effect is particularly challenging when your material is very dense and embedded in relatively less dense material. MARS tells the reconstruction system how to compensate for the effect of extreme beam hardening in the regions between very dense objects. This is important in applications like biomaterials, where you might be looking at implants next to bone or tissue. Or electronics where extremely dense solder balls appear next to other less dense materials on a printed circuit board, generating strong artifacts. MARS reconstructs your images to compensate for these effects.
MARS is available in the Artifact Reduction package.


Pharmaceutical sample consisting of large lactose carrier particles and smaller (< 1 um) API particles. Image on the left is standard FDK; image on the right is with PhaseEvolve processing. Histograms show the distribution of intensities in the images. Left, all phases are convoluted, making it difficult to segment the image. Right, the histogram shows well-differentiated phases with PhaseEvolve in the two peaks. Sample courtesy University of Manchester, UK
Pharmaceutical sample consisting of large lactose carrier particles and smaller (< 1 um) API particles. Image on the left is standard FDK; image on the right is with PhaseEvolve processing. Histograms show the distribution of intensities in the images. Left, all phases are convoluted, making it difficult to segment the image. Right, the histogram shows well-differentiated phases with PhaseEvolve in the two peaks. Sample courtesy University of Manchester, UK
PhaseEvolve
Enhanced Image Contrast and Improved Segmentation
ZEISS PhaseEvolve is a patented (US11645792B2) postprocessing reconstruction algorithm that enhances the image contrast by revealing material contrast uniquely inherent to X-ray microscopy, which can often be obscured by phase effects in low-medium density samples or high-resolution datasets. Perform more accurate quantitative analysis with improved contrast and segmentation of your results.
PhaseEvolve is available in the Artifact Reduction package and in the cloud.
ZEISS OptiRecon
Fast and Efficient Iterative Reconstruction Solution
A fast and efficient algorithm-based technology that delivers iterative reconstruction from your desktop, allowing you to achieve up to 4× faster scan times or enhanced image quality with equivalent throughput. ZEISS OptiRecon is an economical solution offering superior interior tomography or throughput on a broad class of samples.
OptiRecon is available in the Recon package and Premium ART packages, and as a standalone module.
Architecture: Flexibility Meets Accessibility
The ZEISS Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox is designed to both optimize your X-ray reconstruction results and to be easy to use.


(a) Standard reconstruction; (b) DeepRecon Pro ImageClarity reconstruction; (c) test: noise removed with correct model; (d) features removed: incorrect model was selected.
(a) Standard reconstruction; (b) DeepRecon Pro ImageClarity reconstruction; (c) test: noise removed with correct model; (d) features removed: incorrect model was selected.
Image Difference Feature
With ZEISS Image Difference, you can see exactly what the models are doing with respect to your reconstructed images. By enabling you to check your model, you can trust that the training model is removing noise and not erasing features.


(Left) DeepScout with no ROI training; (Center) DeepScout with ROI training: halo removed; (Right) Inner streaking artifacts also removed
(Left) DeepScout with no ROI training; (Center) DeepScout with ROI training: halo removed; (Right) Inner streaking artifacts also removed
ROI Training
ROI training for ZEISS DeepRecon Pro and ZEISS DeepScout focuses the training of your model on the most important data you select, removing bias from the scanned volume and resulting in better performance. ROI training is useful for enhancing contrast and removing artifacts and can significantly reduce the training time for your models.


Model Database User Interface. Searchable, sortable information for every model
Model Database User Interface. Searchable, sortable information for every model
Easily Manage Your Efforts
Model Data Management
As the number of models you develop can accumulate quickly over time, the Model Database tool helps manage your stored models. It displays a list of all available models in a way that can be easily sorted and searched. The models can be exported to and imported from a zip file, making it easier to share trained models between different ART clients.
Recon Server Status
This feature enables you to easily manage the recon server job queue status across multiple connected clients, preventing traffic jams and disrupted runs.
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*DeepRecon Pro with a 2-year license is automatically included with VersaXRM 730 and 615, or upgrade to perpetual license


Stateless Process for Maximum Data Security
Your data, powering your experiences, is controlled by you. You, the user, have full control over sharing your data, results, and training models with your peers and collaborators. Your data is secured during processing and while in transit. The ZEISS core privacy principle is that you own your data. All data uploaded belong to you and your organization, only, and the confidentiality of your data is our top priority. You can feel confident about where your data is sent and how it is processed.