Making the Most of Your CT-Scan

X-ray photography has been used for decades for medical purposes. Now, scientists have found new ways of obtaining precise and comprehensive data from x-ray computer tomography. In the project BIO-CT-EXPLOIT, an international team of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers figured out new ways to extract valuable information from the data obtained in CT scans. The research project has led to new computer codes for medical applications. In future, they will be used for bone implants, surgery, and tissue engineering. "If we want to make the most of our x-ray data, we need to have an excellent understanding of the microstructure we are looking at", says project coordinator Professor Christian Hellmich from the Vienna University of Technology. "We created detailed, voxel-specific computer models of biological tissue.