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Below you will find a collection of use cases of our 3D data visualization and analysis software. These use cases include scientific publications, articles, papers, posters, presentations or even videos that show how Amira-Avizo Software is used to address various scientific and industrial research topics.
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![Observing the devastating coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) inside the coffee berry using microcomputed tomography](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/20-11-2018-14-40-40.png)
The coffee berry borer is the most devastating insect pest of coffee throughout the world. The insect spends most of its life cycle inside the coffee berry, which makes it quite difficult to observe its behaviour. Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) was used to observe all developmental stages of the coffee berry borer inside coffee berries (Coffea canephora). An interesting oviposition pattern involving a sequential placement of eggs starting in the periphery of the seed and moving inwards ... Read more
Ignacio Alba-Alejandre, Javier Alba-Tercedor, Fernando E. Vega
![New omomyoids (Euprimates, Mammalia) from the late Uintan of southern California, USA, and the question of the extinction of the Paromomyidae (Plesiadapiformes, Primates)](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/08-10-2018-22-30-41.png)
Paromomyidae has been thought to represent the longest-lived group of stem primates (plesiadapiforms), extending from the early Paleocene to late Eocene. We analyzed primate material from the late-middle Eocene of southern California that had initially been ascribed to cf. Phenacolemur shifrae. This material falls at the lowest end of the size range for the family. The Californian specimens also exhibit several dental features that are atypical for paromomyids, such as a strong paraconid on t... Read more
Sergi López-Torres, Mary T. Silcox, and Patricia A. Holroyd
![Estimating the Effective Elastic Parameters of Nodular Cast Iron from Micro-Tomographic Imaging and Multiscale Finite Elements: Comparison between Numerical and Experimental Results](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/17-09-2018-22-20-10.png)
We describe in detail a methodology to estimate the effective elastic parameters of nodular cast iron, using micro-tomography in conjunction with multiscale finite elements. We discuss the adjustment of the image acquisition parameters, address the issue of the representative-volume choice, and present a brief discussion on image segmentation. In addition, the finite-element computational implementation developed to estimate the effective elastic parameters from segmented microstructural imag... Read more
Andre Pereira, Marcio Costa, Carla Anflor, Juan Pardal and Ricardo Leiderman
![The morphological diversity of Garra barreimiae](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Variations-of-pelvic-fin-ray-numbers.png)
The morphological diversity of Garra barreimiae
Garra barreimiae (Fowler and Steinitz, Bull Res Counc Isr 5B:262–289, 1956) is a freshwater fish that lives throughout the Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Previously, four different genetic clades (West clade, C... Read more
Arthur Pichler; Harald Ahnelt; Sandra Kirchner; Helmut Sattmann; Elisabeth Haring; Stephan Handschuh; Jörg Freyhof; Reginald Victor; Luise Kruckenhauser
![Automatic method for estimation of in situ effective contact angle from X-ray micro tomography images of two-phase flow in porous media](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/water-wet-system.jpg)
Multiphase flow in porous media is strongly influenced by the wettability of the system, which affects the arrangement of the interfaces of different phases residing in the pores.
We present a method for estimating the effective contact angle, which quantifies the wettability and controls the local capillary pressure within the complex pore space of natural rock samples, based on the physical constraint of constant curvature of the interface between two fluids. This algorithm is ... Read more
Alessio Scanziani, Kamaljit Singh, Martin J. Blunt, Alberto Guadagnini
![Pneumatisation and internal architecture of the Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius casque: a microCT study](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Southern-Cassowary-casque.png)
Cranial ornaments such as keratinous horns and bony casques are commonplace amongst birds and take a variety of diverse forms. Possible functions include display, thermoregulation, vocalisation and intraspecific combat, yet few hypotheses have been directly tested. Here we investigate the anatomy and mechanics of the casque of the Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), and test functional hypotheses using CT-based virtual dissection.
In particular, we determine the nature of pneumat... Read more
Charlotte A. Brassey , Thomas O’Mahoney
![Contrast-enhanced 3D micro-CT of plant tissues using different impregnation techniques](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Contrast-enhanced-3D-micro-CT-of-plant-tissues-using-different-impregnation-techniques.jpg)
Contrast-enhanced 3D micro-CT of plant tissues using different impregnation techniques
X-ray micro-CT has increasingly been used for 3D imaging of plant structures. At the micrometer reso-lution however, limitations in X-ray contrast often lead to datasets with poor qualitative and quantitative measures, especially within dense cell clusters of plant tissue specimens. The current study developed protocols for delivering a cesium based contrast enhancing solution to varying plant tissue specimens for the purpose of improving 3D tissue structure characterization within plant spec... Read more
Zi Wang, Pieter Verboven and Bart Nicolai, Department of Biosystems KU Leuven – University of Leuven Willem de Croylaan, Leuven Belgium
![Hydraulic properties of porous sintered glass bead systems](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Sintered-glass-particle-number-distribution.png)
Hydraulic properties of porous sintered glass bead systems
In this paper, porous sintered glass bead packings are studied, using X-ray Computed Tomography (XRCT) images at 16μm16μm voxel resolution, to obtain not only the porosity field, but also other properties like particle sizes, pore throats and the permeability. The influence of the sintering procedure and the original particle size distributions on the microstructure, and thus on the hydraulic properties, is analyzed in detail. The XRCT data are visualized and studied by advanced image fil... Read more
University of Twente, Enschede | Ruhr-University Bochum; Eindhoven University of Technology | Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy | University of Stuttgart
![KTH Royal Institute of Technology uses Avizo software to visualize and characterize the internal structure of civil engineering materials](https://usg.fei-software-center.com/backoffice/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/kth1a.jpg)
The Division of Highway and Railway Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) promotes advances in computational and experimental science in order to develop new materials, tools and systems for improved mobility, transportation safety and infrastructure durability. The group works on analysis and performance-based design of roads and tracks, management as well as operation and maintenance of roads.
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Denis Jelagin, Alvaro Guarin, Ibrahim Onifade, Nicole Kringos, and Bjorn Birgisson (KTH)