NSRRC Activity Report 2022

Facility Development and Status 105 computer. In this program, the rotation center can be found via a semi-automatic process and ring artifacts can be removed automatically. The reconstruction data has been transformed into a suitable format for 3D rendering programs such as Amira (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.) and 3D slicer 6 and one rendering is shown in Fig. 3 . Commissioning for the Second Half of 2022 In the second half of 2022, this beamline was made available for 30% of its time for use by users with many applications in various fields such as materials, biology, energy, geology, and the environment. The experiments are classified as general experiments and in situ experiments. General experiments can use general sample holders and adopt an automatic alignment method, whereas in situ experiments depend on the preparation status and use the script provided by the experimental station to perform action programming and then automatically perform measurements according to the experimental conditions. The PXM has served more than eight research groups, provided over 100 beam shifts, and already produced its first user paper 7 in November 2022. Additionally, the high- quality images obtained from the experimental station were used by award winning participants in the “2022 Taiwan Microscope Image Contest” held by Olympus Corportation. 8 Summary and Future Work This article reports on the progress of a new high-speed tomography experimental station developed at the end of 2022, including the trial run and user experiments. The automation and integration of the PXM endstation, including an automated sample changing system and Fig. 3 : 3D rendering of an unhatched gecko egg. (a,b) Two different virtual slices. its data storage and calculation capabilities, have greatly improved the efficiency and accuracy of experiments conducted there and also reduced the time needed for experimentation. By the end of 2022, the PXM endstation had served eight research groups, provided over 100 beam shifts, and produced its first user paper in November of 2022. The research team will continue work in 2023 on the development of the environmental cell, white beam mode, big data processing, and the TXM endstation. (Reported by Gung-Chian Yin) References 1. G.-C. Yin, NSRRC Activity Report 2021 , 106 (2022). 2. G.-C. Yin, Y.-F. Song, B.-Y. Chen, C.-Y. Lee, M.-Y. Hsu, C.-L. Liao, C.-C. Chiu, M.-H. Lee, C.-Y. Liu, C.-F.Chang, C.-C Wang, L.-C. Chiang , J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2380 , 012119 (2022) . 3. M.-Y. Hsu, C.-Y. Lee, H.-S.Fung, B.-Y. Chen, G.-C.Yin, J. Syn- chrotron Radiat. 29 , 888 (2022). 4. C.-Y. Lee, G.-C. Yin, B.-Y. Chen, M.-Y. Hsu, Synchrotron Radiat. News 34 , 4 (2021). 5. TPS BL31, Youtube, January 16 (2023). https://www. youtube.com/ @tpsbl31/videos 6. A. Fedorov, R. Beichel, J. Kalpathy-Cramer, J. Finet, J-C. Fil- lion-Robin, S. Pujol, C. Bauer, D. Jennings, F.M. Fennessy, M. Sonka, J. Buatti, S.R. Aylward, J.V. Miller, S. Pieper, J. Magen. Reson. Imaging 30 , 1323 (2012). 7. L.-W. Kuo, T.-Y. Chen, D. Brown, J. Si, T.J. Meng, H.S. Sheu, Y.-F. Song, G.-C. Yin, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 177 , 111 (2022). 8. Olympus Corportation, 2022 Taiwan Microscope Image Contest, October 11, (2022). https://olympusomic.tw/ online-expo/