CT Scanner Technology

The main scanner we utilise is the extremely high-level, Siemens SOMATOM Force Dual Energy CT Scanner.

The scanner has one of the widest bores on the market at 78cm – allowing for a wide range of size of objects to be scanned.

Its specialist X-ray tubes and detectors with 3D anti-scatter collimators allow for an extremely low spatial resolution of 0.24mm.

A large amount of power from its 2 x 120kW generators allows for greater scanning penetration of objects.

Dual-energy technology allows for novel interrogation of materials after the scan.

The 78cm bore of the Siemens Force CT Scanner

Dinosaur bone CT scan and 3D printing

A radiology team in Berlin have successfully CT scanned and 3D printed a replica of an ancient dinosaur bone stored at the Museum für Natuurkunde (Museum of Natural History), Berlin, Germany, having been encased and preserved in plaster. Between 1909 and 1913, two German palaeontologists, commissioned by the museum, led an excavation that yielded approximately 235 […]

Antique xray – 2D images with some limitations

Traditionally, museums have assessed antiquities and museum pieces with conventional xrays. This produces a 2D image of the object only (like a medical xray of a bone), which may be adequate in some circumstances but clearly fails to capture the 3D nature and layer-by-layer internal structure of an object. Therefore an antique xray may be an […]

CT scan investigation of fakes, forgeries and copies of antiquities

The high resolution, high contrast nature of CT imaging is ideal for the assessment of the internal structure of artefacts. Where conventional x-rays can only produce a 2D image, the sequential ‘slices’ through an item with CT, produce an internal 3D reconstruction. CT is extremely useful for identifying the inner density of materials which can help […]

CT Scanner Technology

The main scanner we utilise is the extremely high-level, Siemens SOMATOM Force Dual Energy CT Scanner.

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