We offer a range of training services and provide online resources for our users.

To find out more about our online user resources (documentation, training material, etc) please have a look at the Documentation page (campus IP or VPN access only).

For information on training sessions and workshops for users, please look at the Training page. Other useful links and resources available on the web can be found below:

Software (Download, tutorials and functionality)

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• Fiji/ImageJ : open source image processing software ( Download , Getting started , Tutoria l )
• Blender : open source 3D graphics and animation software ( Download , Tutorials )
• VGStudio MAX - Volume Graphics: 3D data visualisation and analysis ( F ind out more )
• myVGL : free viewer application for projects created with VG software products ( Download )
• Avizo - FEI Visualization Sciences Group: 3D data visualisation and analysis ( Find out more , User guide )
• Simpleware : 3D data visualisation, analysis and model generation ( Find out more , Webinar )
• IDL - EXELIS Visual Information Solutions: programming language used to extract visualizations from complex numerical data ( Find out more )
• DigiXCT - Digisens: 3D-reconstruction software for the X-ray tomography3D CT software ( Find out more )
• GOM Inspect : 3D inspection and mesh processing, ( Find out more , Download )
• Tomviz : Open source software for tomography data visualisation designed to work on low-end computers ( Download )
• Microscopy Image Browser a high-performance MATLAB-based software for image processing, segmentation and visualization( Homepage )
• I Do Imaging : free medical imaging applications and resources as listed in www.idoimaging.com

Other useful resources

• 3D X-ray Histology (XRH) Wiki page
• Tables of X-ray mass attenuation coefficients and mass energy-absorption coefficients at NIST
• X-ray Data Booklet at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Feature extraction and image processing by Mark Nixon and Alberto Aguado
• The Principles of Computerised Tomographic Imaging by Avinash Kak and Malcolm Slaney
• An excellent overview of computer tomography and use, technical limitations, data analysis and so on can be found at the UTCT website
• Simulation of X-ray Spectra: Online tool for the simulation of X-ray Spectra by Siemens

University of Southampton imaging & affiliated Facilities

• 3D X-ray Histology Facility (XRH)
• Biomedical Imaging Unit (BIU)
• Imaging and Microscopy Centre
• Computationally Intensive Imaging
• Bioengineering Science Research Group
• The National Crystallography Service
• Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration
• Engineering Materials Research Group

Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Tomography Facilities

• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ; Grenoble, France
• Diamond Light Source - Imaging beamlines; Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, UK
• Swiss Light Source , SLS | Paul Scherrer Institut, PSI - TOMCAT Beamline ; Villigen, Switzerland
• SPring-8 ; Hyogo 679-5148 Japan
• List of Lightsources of the World
• ISIS Neutron and Muon Source ; a unique combination of neutron imaging and neutron diffraction techniques