Abstract
At the Center for X-ray Tomography at Ghent University (Belgium) (www.ugct.ugent.be), besides hardware development for high-resolution x-ray CT scanners, a lot of progress is being made in the field of 3D analysis of the scanned samples. Morpho+ is a flexible 3D analysis software which provides the necessary petrophysical parameters of the scanned samples in 3D. Although Morpho+ was originally designed to provide any kind of 3D parameter, it contains some specific features especially designed for the analysis of geomaterial properties like porosity, partial porosity, pore-size distribution, grain size, grain orientation and surface determination. Additionally, the results of the 3D analysis can be visualized which enables us to understand and interpret the analysis results in a straightforward way. The complementarities between high-quality x-ray CT images and flexible 3D software are opening up new gateways in the study of geomaterials.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Computed Tomography for Geomaterials |
| Subtitle of host publication | GeoX 2010 |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Pages | 84-92 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781848211797 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Jan 2013 |
Keywords
- 3D analysis
- Geomaterials
- High-resolution
- Morpho+
- X-ray CT