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The High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility at The University of Texas at Austin (UTCT) is an NSF-supported shared multi-user facility. UTCT offers scientific researchers across the earth, biological and engineering sciences access to a completely nondestructive technique for visualizing features in the interior of opaque solid objects, and for obtaining digital information on their 3D geometries and properties.

Interested in scanning materials at our facility? See the Scanning FAQ or download the Scan Agreement Form.

Examples of High-Resolution X-ray CT

Garnet-kyanite schist, pseudocolored 3D reconstructions from CT scans.

Variation in bone density in the skull of the Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops

The skull of Rooneyia viejaensis, among the most complete and best preserved primate skulls ever discovered in North America

An asphalt sample and antiphonal: Psalterium, An[t]iphonarium Sanctorale cum Psalmis & Hymnis, printed in Mexico in 1584.

News and Happenings

XRadia MicroXCT sample imagery now available!

UTCT recently expanded our imaging capabilities with the acquisition of an Xradia MicroXCT scanner. This scanner is capable of sub-micron resolution, thus effectively covering the smaller specimen size ranges (<1 cm) previously beyond our capabilities. Click here for sample imagery.

Selected Recent Publications
Hirsch, D.M. (2008) Controls on porphyroblast size along a regional metamorphic field gradient. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 155, 401-415

Friedman, M. (2008) The evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry. Nature, 454, 209-212.

Gosman, J.H., and Ketcham, R.A. (2008) Patterns in ontogeny of human trabecular bone from SunWatch Village in the prehistoric Ohio Valley: general features of microarchitectural change. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 35, 88-104.

Balanoff, A.M., Norell, M.A., Grellet-Tinner, G., and Lewin, M.R. (2008) Digital preparation of a probable neoceratopsian preserved within an egg, with comments on microstructural anatomy of ornithischian eggshells. Naturwissenschaften, 95, 493-500. Supplemental material: http://digimorph.org/specimens/neoceratopsian_egg/

Hirose, T., and Hayman, N.W. (2008) Structure, permeability, and strength of a fault zone in the footwall of an oceanic core complex, the Central Dome of the Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30°N. Journal of Structural Geology, 30, 1060-1071.