Dear Luci,
The very short answer is, it depends on your application (scanning hundreds of
same thing or a multi-user facility in which users will want to scan rocks,
biological specimens, engine parts). The major companies I am familiar with are
Bruker (Skyscan), Scanco and GE. Expect to pay an
dear Luci,
we too are interested in buying a microCT, and are examining some
instruments just now. Essentially, we want to scan hundreds of similar,
small and low-density objects (insects), and recently tested both
SkyScan 1174, and 1172 (Brucker). Besides, I will be glad to know what
is the
Dera Luci and Angela Roggero,
Nikon and Northstar imaging are also manufacturers that are worth looking
into. The Nikon XTH225 is extremely popular in the UK for digitising
objects from ~2cm up to ~50cm. Resolution varies between 3-5 microns and
100 microns, depending on sample size etc. If you are
consider (e.g. 1275).
But as Tom emphasized below machine is only one part of it.
M
From: Thomas O'Mahoney
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 1:03:58 PM
To: Angela Roggero; lk...@siue.edu
Cc: MORPHMET
Subject: Re: [MORPHMET] RE: micro-CT suggestions
Dera Luc