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

Gross, J., Mosie, A.B., Krysher, C., Zeigler, R.A., Eckley, S.A, Ketcham, R.A., Hanna, R.D., Edey, D., Kent, J.J., McCubbin, F.M., McDonald, F., Schild, T., Lucey, P.G., Sun, L., Flom, A., Petro, N.E., Shearer, C.K., and ANGSA Science Team (In press) Apollo Next Generation Sample Analyses (ANGSA) samples: Preliminary examination of double drive tube samples 73001 and 73002 and lessons learned for returning to the Moon with Artemis. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets.

Gignac, P.M., et al. (2024) The role of networks to overcome large-scale challenges in tomography: The Non-Clinical Tomography Users Research Network. Tomography of Materials and Structures, 5, 100031.

Grunstra, N.D., Hollinetz, F., Bravo Morante, G., Zachos, F.E., Pfaff, C., Winkler, V., Mitteroecker, P., and Le Maître, A. (2024) Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear. Nature Communications, 15, 7869.

Singh, K., Muzemder, A.T.M., Edey, D., Colbert, M., Maisano, J., and Shafei, B. (2024) Time-lapse 3D Micro-tomography of calcite column experiments to study pH-dependent dynamic dissolution processes. Applied Geochemistry, 167, 105980.

McCartney, K.N., Hammer, J.E., Shea, T., Brachfeld, S., and Giachetti, T. (2024) Evaluating the role of titanomagnetite in bubble nucleation: novel applications of low temperature magnetic analysis and textural characterization of rhyolite pumice and obsidian from Glass Mountain, California. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2023GC011338.

Ren, A., Zhong, Z., Wang, Y., Qin, B., Smith, W., Xu, X., Listro, T., and Zhang, F. (In press) Manufacture, characterization, and elucidation of drug release mechanisms of etonogestrel implants based on ethylene vinyl acetate. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Yap, T., He, Z., Wang, Z., Tamijani, A., and Tehrani, M. (2024) Experimental investigation and validation of strength-based topology and fiber path optimization in additively manufactured continuous fiber reinforced composites. Additive Manufacturing, 89, 104274.

See our publication page for a complete list.