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ArticleJournal of synchrotron radiation2026

A robotic and high-throughput X-ray micro-computed tomography workflow.

Xiaoyang Liu, Alex Lavens, James Bennett O'Sullivan, Alan Kastengren, Andrew T Townsend, Jason G Toyoda, Hasitha Wijesuriya, Tamas Varga, Karolina Michalska

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Article in Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Xiaoyang LiuAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Alex LavensAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3856-9919
James Bennett O'SullivanAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7518-4359
Alan KastengrenAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Andrew T TownsendEarth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
Jason G ToyodaEarth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
Hasitha WijesuriyaEarth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3937-1629
Tamas VargaEarth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5492-866X
Karolina MichalskaAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7140-3649

Funding

Biological and Environmental Research DE-AC05-76RL01830Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences DE-AC02-06CH11357
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the recent upgrades of synchrotron facilities and an increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-ready scientific datasets, there is a growing interest in high-throughput and automated experimental workflows to accelerate large-scale data-driven research. In this work, we demonstrate a fully automated data collection workflow for synchrotron micro-computed tomography experiment on soil cores on beamline 7-BM at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), operating without expert supervision. The automation integrates sample exchange, multi-position movement and data acquisition. A self-contained robotic arm system is designed for rapid and reliable sample exchange. It accommodates various sample types and can be readily deployed across multiple APS beamlines. Additionally, the beamline has recently upgraded the sample stage stacks to enable a large travel range and an efficient macroscope-based imaging system, enabling characterization of highly attenuating and large samples. This work establishes a foundation for future closed-loop, adaptive and intelligent synchrotron micro-computed tomography experiments.

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automationhigh-contrast sampleshigh-energy studiesmicrotomographyX-ray imaging

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PMID42329669
PMCPMC13344543

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