A central mission of NoCTURN is to define and disambiguate terms related to Computed Tomography.

Complete list of X-ray CT terminology

Imaging Fundamentals

• X-radiation
• Histogram
• Histogram
• Noise
• Point Spread Function
• Voxel
• Resolution & Voxel Size
• Tomography

MicroCT Hardware

• X-ray Sources
  • X-ray Tubes
    • Microfocus X-ray Tubes
    • Nanofocus X-ray Tubes
    • Open X-ray Tubes
    • Sealed X-ray Tubes
• X-ray Detectors

MicroCT Image Acquisition

• Beam Shape
• kVp / Voltage
• Imaging Trajectory
  • Circular
  • Helical / Spiral
  • Laminography
• Gain
• Binning
• Frames / Exposures / Projections
• Timing / Exposure time
• Frame Averaging
• Filters (physical)

MicroCT Data Processing

• Reconstruction
• Segmentation

MicroCT Image Artifacts

• Beam Hardening