7–11 Sept 2025
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The impact of positional inaccuracy on 3D X-ray image quality

MOPCO10
8 Sept 2025, 16:00
2h
Courtyard, Liverpool Guild of Students

Courtyard, Liverpool Guild of Students

Liverpool Guild of Students, University of Liverpool.
Poster Presentation MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms MOPCO

Speaker

Lauryn Eley (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)

Description

X-ray imaging of both material and biological samples is a key application of synchrotrons and laser wakefield accelerators. However, it is possible that undiagnosed beam location offsets can impact the quality of the image created. This is particularly the case in 3D imaging, for which the 3D reconstructions require precise knowledge of the location at which each x-ray projection was taken. This study uses a low-energy x-ray imaging device designed to perform mobile digital tomosynthesis (DT), a modality of 3D x-ray imaging, for veterinary scanning to investigate the impact of this. An intentional offset is randomly applied of size 0.5 mm and 1 mm from the expected x-ray source position, and the quality of the reconstructed image is assessed for both the case where this offset is accounted for, and where it is not. From this, it is concluded that x-ray beams used for 3D imaging applications can have up to a 1 mm error without seeing large degradation in reconstructed image quality.ht be in other modern x-ray contexts, such as within XFEL technology.

Funding Agency

This work was jointly supported by Adaptix Ltd and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under grant agreement ST/W006766/1

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Author

Lauryn Eley (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)

Co-authors

Alexander Hill (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute) Aquila Mavalankar (Adaptix (United Kingdom)) Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute) Daliya Aflyatunova (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute) Steve Wells (Adaptix (United Kingdom))

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