When: 28 January 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 CET
Speaker: Lucia Mancini, ZAG, Slovenia
Title: Synchrotron and laboratory 3D & 4D X-ray imaging in Heritage Science applications
Abstract
Cultural and natural heritage collections are very rich and diverse in their materials and provenance. These objects keep precious information about our history and evolution. For that reason, it is of paramount importance to investigate such materials using advanced technologies, exploring the most suited strategies to preserve and valorise these finds.
The aim of this talk is to present the possibilities offered by X-ray imaging techniques and related software tools for the non-destructive analysis of rare or unique artefacts or fossils. More specifically, the potential and importance of three-dimensional (3D) and 4D (3D + time) X-ray computed microtomography techniques in the field of heritage science will be presented through several applications and successful stories. The adoption of a multiscale and multimodal imaging approach combining the use of laboratory-based instruments and techniques available at large scale facilities will be illustrated as a high-accuracy method to improve accessibility to museums and heritage science as well as for an integrative restoration of damaged objects.
Bio
Dr Mancini is a physicist and senior researcher presently working in the Department of Materials of ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute) in Ljubljana. Since 1995, she has been working in the field of synchrotron- and lab-based 3D X-ray imaging using non-destructive approaches working before at ESRF (Grenoble, France) and then as beamline scientist at Elettra (Trieste, Italy) where she acquired an extensive experience in the application of X-ray computed tomography techniques to material science as well as to natural and cultural heritage studies. She has a strong background in data processing and analysis of 3D & 4D images.
