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

Jung, J., Kim, M., Jo, H., and Clarke, J.A. (2026) A new dinosaur species from Korea and its implications for early-diverging neornithischian diversity. Fossil Record, 29, 87-113.
Bergelin, M., Galco, G., and Ketcham, R.A. (2026) Cosmogenic ³He exposure dating in mafic rocks by “Virtual mineral separation” of pyroxene. Geochronology, 8, 19-35.
Furgeson, M.T., Flachs, E.M., and Bogard, D.G. (2026) Elevated mainstream mach number effects on shaped gas turbine film cooling holes. Journal of Turbomachinery, 148, 051009.
Ryan, A.J., et al. (2026) Low thermal inertia of carbonaceous asteroid Bennu driven by cracks observed in returned samples. Nature Communications, 17, 2443.
O’Dea, C.J., Scruggs, E.P., and Page, Z.A. (In press) Triplet-triplet annihilation enhances photochemical curing contrast for vat-based 3D printing. Advanced Functional Materials.
Mann, A., Xiong, Z., Calthorpe, A.S., Sues, H-D., and Maddin, H.C. (2026) Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 10, 193-202.

See our publication page for a complete list.