The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility

The High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility at The University of Texas at Austin (UTCT) is a national shared multi-user facility supported by the Instrumentation and Facilities Program of NSF’s Earth Sciences (EAR) directorate and NASA’s Planetary Science Enabling Facilities program. 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.

Selected Recent Publications

Koester, B.E., Handley, J.C., Mercado, M., Goodchild, O.A., Oakes, R. L., and Sessa, J.A. (2025) Assessing pteropod shell dissolution to advance ocean monitoring techniques: a methods comparison of SEM, CT, and light microscopy. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12, 1473333.

Ferrante, G., Gonnermann, H., Fliedner, C., Giachetti, T., and Ryan, A.G. (2025) Viscosity of bubbly magmas from torsional experiments on pumice. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 461, 108297.

O’Connor, J., Clark, A., Kuo, P.C., Kiat, Y., Fabbri, M., Shinya, A., Van Beek, C., Lu, J., Wang, M. and Hu, H. (2025) Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan. Nature, 641, 1201-1207.

Stevens, L.M., Halwachs, K.N., Recker, E.A., Garcia, V.G., Rosales, A.M., and Page, ZA. (2025) Optimizing green light photoredox catalyzed polymerizations for 3D printing of cell-laden hydrogels. Biomacromolecules, 26, 5938-5947.

Ukar, E., Fall, A., Laubach, S.E., and Ketcham, R. (2025) Rapid crack-seal growth of Faden quartz. Journal of Structural Geology, 194, 105343.

See our publication page for a complete list.