SWEDNESS/LINXS Doctoral Course on Neutron Imaging

1 Oct 2018, 10:00 → 4 Oct 2018, 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

Puffendorf Institute Lund

Stephen Hall (LINXS)

Monday 1 October

10:00 → 10:30 Arrival

10:30 → 11:00 Welcome: aims, structure assessment

Speaker: Stephen Hall (LINXS)

NDoc_School_Intro.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Introduction to neutron imaging

basic concepts/definitions, interaction mechanisms, introduce different modalities (set the scene for the coming days: Polychromatic, monochromatic, wavelength resolved, steady state versus ToF,….)

Speaker: Prof. Markus Strobl (PSI)

Kardjilov_2018_Advances in neutron imaging.pdf

kardjilovetal2011.pdf

Lund-NI-school-lecture1_Oct18_MS_send.pdf

Sears_1992_Neutron scattering lengths and cross sections.pdf

strobl2009.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Neutron imaging beamlines and systems (past, present, future)

Speaker: Prof. Markus Strobl (PSI)

Lund-NI-school-lecture2_Oct18_MS_send.pdf

14:05 → 16:05 Introduction to (neutron) tomography

acquisition to reconstruction including mathematical principals, with a focus on transmission (attenuation) imaging and including potential artefacts such as rings, beam hardening etc..

Speaker: Dr Anders Kaestner (PSI)

Kaestner_TomoPrinciple_SwedNESS2018.pdf

Kak_Slaney_Ch03.pdf

16:15 → 17:00 Introduction to tomography reconstruction tutorial

– code installation, etc.

https://github.com/neutronimaging/imagingsuite/releases

Speaker: Dr Anders Kaestner (PSI)

Tuesday 2 October

09:00 → 10:30 Tutorial on tomographic reconstruction part I

Speaker: Dr Anders Kaestner (PSI)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 “Extreme” imaging (fast, large, high res.)

Speaker: Dr Nikolay Kardjilov (HZB)

Talk_Kardjilov_SwedNESS_Extreme_02.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 Scattering contrast: Phase contrast, grating interferometry, SESANS, 3DND…

Speaker: Prof. Markus Strobl (PSI)

Lund-NI-School-lecture3_Oct18_MS_send.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 16:30 Energy selective imaging 1 (steady state sources)

Speaker: Dr Nikolay Kardjilov (HZB)

Talk_Kardjilov_SwedNESS_Energy_Selective_02_printout.pdf

Wednesday 3 October

09:00 → 10:30 Polarised neutron imaging

Speaker: Dr Nikolay Kardjilov (HZB)

Talk_Kardjilov_SwedNESS_Magnetic_02_printout.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Tutorial on tomographic reconstruction part II

Speaker: Dr Anders Kaestner (PSI)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Energy selective imaging 2 (ToF)

Speaker: Dr Robin Woracek (ESS)

EnergySelectiveImaging2_pdf.pdf

Kockelmann_2018_Time-of-Flight Neutron Imaging on IMAT.pdf

Strobl_2009_Future prospects of imaging at spallation neutron sources.pdf

Woracek-etal_2018_Diffraction in neutron imaging—A review.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 2D, 3D and 4D image analysis

Speakers: Dr Stephen Hall (LINXS), Dr Erika Tudisco (Lund University)

Image_analysis.pdf

Thursday 4 October

09:00 → 10:00 Complementarity of x-ray and neutron imaging & dual modality

Speaker: Dr Anders Kaestner (PSI)

SwedNESS_BimodalImaging_Kaestner.pdf

10:00 → 11:15 Planning & running a neutron imaging experiment

Speaker: Dr Robin Woracek (ESS)

PlanningAndRunning_Woracek_v03.pdf

Proposal_template_v01.doc

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee

11:15 → 12:00 Neutron imaging in mechanics

Speaker: Dr Erika Tudisco (Lund University)

Linx_PhD_Course_20181004.pdf

12:00 → 12:45 Lunch & group photo

12:45 → 13:30 feedback session on beamtime proposals

13:30 → 14:15 Neutron imaging in material science

Speaker: Dr Robin Woracek (ESS)

NeutronImagingMaterialScience_Woracek.pdf

14:15 → 15:45 2D, 3D and 4D image analysis: practical session

Speakers: Dr Stephen Hall (LINXS), Dr Erika Tudisco (Lund University)

ExpMech_ImAnal_exercise_2018.pdf