Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers at KIT reaches New
Record in High-speed Computer Tomography – Example: 4D Tomography of Living
Weevil / Publication in PNAS
How does the hip joint of a crawling weevil move? A
technique to record 3D X-ray films showing the internal movement dynamics in a
spatially precise manner and, at the same time, in the temporal dimension has
now been developed by researchers at ANKA, KIT’s Synchrotron Radiation Source.
The scientists applied this technique to a living weevil. From up to 100,000
two-dimensional radiographs per second, they generated complete 3D film
sequences in real time or slow motion.