ZEISS Xradia CrystalCT The First Commercial MicroCT Crystallographic Imaging System

✓ Complementary information from high resolution absorption contrast tomography and non-destructive 3D grain mapping delivering size, shape, orientation, and grain boundary information
✓ Non-destructive insights into interior microstructures and overlaid grain maps not visible by surface imaging methods such as optical or scanning electron microscopy
✓ Ability to segment and analyze data to obtain quantitative, 3D descriptions of structures and particles
✓ 4D imaging through ex situ or in situ experiments to see how materials evolve, evolve, through mechanical load or corrosion

✓ Understand grain size and phase evolution in 3D for insight into alloy performance and its dependence on thermal and mechanical processes.
✓ Export real 3D structures for physics simulations: predict materials properties (mechanical, thermal, etc.) or digital rock simulations using non-destructive 3D tomography data imaging, characterization, and modeling of rock cores (up to 4”) with high throughput.
✓ High contrast 3D imaging for in situ flow studies or 3D mineralogy.

✓ Accommodate a range of sample sizes including large objects in their full 3D context, complementing with 3D grain maps in specific applications.
✓ Perform crystallography-based print quality assessment in 3D printed metal parts.
✓ High throughput scanning of intact devices with fast time to results.
✓ Complement or replace physical cross sectioning and eliminate the need to sacrifice your sample.

✓ Image either stained or unstained hard and soft tissues and biological microstructures with high contrast.
✓ Quick, non-destructive verification of sample staining and location of features for subsequent imaging using 3D electron microscopy.

After the first step in your workflow of initial acquisition you can then begin to reconstruct. Load your absorption tomography and your diffraction data into GrainMapper3D. Let it identify potential candidates for grain orientations of a given polycrystal by using back and forward projections.

An automated, iterative search for grains in the sample volume is your next step. Grain reconstruction results are stored as stacks of slices or volume datasets that contain the full description of the indexed grains. Eventually, share 3D CrystalCT results with your collaborators or customers using the standalone GrainMapper3D Viewer application.

Your final step is to get out all the information you need in one single file. Shape, orientation and spatial locations of all grains in the sample volume are exported into an open data format.

Finish your experiment with subsequent analyses using customized software or simulation tools. The advanced indexing routines now support the more complex lower symmetry crystal systems.

Easily scout a region of interest and specify scanning parameters within the Scout-and-Scan Control System. Take advantage of the easy-to-use system in your central lab where users may have a variety of experience levels.

Benefit from:

● Internal camera for sample viewing
● Recipe control (set, save, recall)
● Multiple energies
● Multiple samples with Autoloader option
● Micropositioning capability with a simple mouse click