X-Ray microtomography for materials characterization

Since the 1970ies X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) has become a well-established and routinely used modality in modern diagnostic radiology (Hounsfield, 1973). Beyond that, since the late 1980ies, X-ray CT has emerged as a very important and wide spread tool in industrial inspection as well as in material sciences (Hanke, et al., 2008).