Radiographic data of a wooden block with metal markers at the British Museum X-ray facility

Summary

This submission contains radiographic data containing metal markers of a small wooden block.  

The data is made available as part of [Bossema et al., 2024].

Apparatus

The dataset is acquired using the X-ray facility located at the British Museum, London. Full details can be found in [Bossema et al., 2024].

List of Contents

The content of the submission is given below. All raw data (i.e. no corrections) is made available in .tif format.

The folder contains:

• 16May2022_darkflat: folder containing darkfield and flatfield images, I500F_*.tif
• CWI-TestObject-0mmBrass-16May2022
  • dx: folder containing raw (unprocessed or uncorrected) projection data, CWI-TestObject-0mmBrass-16May2022_01799*.tif
  • ScanData.txt: metadata provided by the scanner

Additional Links

Accompanying code can be found here.

Contact Details

For more information or guidance in using these datasets, please get in touch with 

• bossema [at] cwi.nl

References

Bossema, F.G., Palenstijn, W.J., Heginbotham, A. et al. Enabling 3D CT-scanning of cultural heritage objects using only in-house 2D X-ray equipment in museums. Nat Commun 15, 3939 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48102-w