Micro-Computer-Tomograph at Pal
On October 19, 2016, our new micro-computer tomograph from General Electrics/Phoenix was installed in a laboratory building specially constructed for this large device. Fichtestraße had to be temporarily closed so that heavy-duty specialists from DB Schenker could bring in the sensitive tomograph, which weighs 3 tons. After the training and testing phase, the centerpiece of the µCT lab at the Paleontology Department in Erlangen will deliver high-resolution, non-destructive graphic data sets from various areas of research. In the future, the tomograph will make it possible to spatially represent structures of fossils that were previously only accessible, if at all, through purely mechanical (i.e., “invasive” and destructive) techniques. Our µCT will also be used in many interdisciplinary research areas such as materials science, (dental) medicine, archaeology, marine research, etc. The laboratory and the tomograph were financed by the university and the German Research Foundation.