Advances in X-Ray Imaging Workshop June 2025
The 8th Annual Workshop on Advances in X-ray imaging took place on 24 June 2025, at Harwell, Oxfordshire and was a great success. This is a collaboration between The University of òòò½ÎÑÊÓÆµ at , and the with the aim of bringing together scientists from different fields to discuss developments and applications of a variety of X-Ray imaging and complementary techniques, and to build international collaborations.
It was fantastic to host scientists from all over the country, The Universities of òòò½ÎÑÊÓÆµ, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton, Warwick, Glasgow, UCL, ICL etc) and from Denmark, France, Islamabad, Morocco, Pakistan, as well as many of our Harewell colleagues and collaborators from DLS, STFC, CLF, RFI, and industry.
Speakers
Professor , Director, The University of òòò½ÎÑÊÓÆµ at Harwell, opened the workshop and delivered the welcome speech, followed by presentations from the following speakers:
- , University College London
- , The Rosalind Franklin Institute
- , Institut Laue-Langevin, France
- , Diamond Light Source
- , Science and Technology Facilities Council
- , DTU Technical University of Denmark
- , The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France
- , University College London
Workshop topics of conversation
A good part of the workshop was dedicated to techniques development and multimodal imaging. Our excellent speakers presented a variety of complementary imaging techniques such as neutron and X-ray tomography applied to complex coupling in porous media, bespoke multimodal X-ray imaging applied to clinical studies and materials science, cryo-EM tomography combined with soft X-ray tomography applied to Bt bacteria, colour imaging applications in materials science and biomaterials using cutting-edge hyperspectral detectors, and recent developments in natural and cultural heritage at ESRF.
New exciting developments for pre- and post-imaging were also highlighted during the workshop such as the Core Imaging Library (CIL) for the reconstruction of challenging datasets which can be used in conjunction with open-source X-ray simulation software such as g-VXR, opening the door to digital twinning of XCT. A nice example of visualisation and analysis of 4D datasets using Digital Volume Correlation was also illustrated to understand and predict the emergence of OA.
Posters and poster prizes
- First prize awarded to Zifan Wang, Diamond Light Source
- Second prize awarded to Raziye Kubra Kumrular, μ-VIS X-Ray Imaging Centre, University of Southampton
- Third prize awarded to Harry Allan, University College London
Thank you to everyone who presented a poster, and congratulations to our three winners!
Thank you…
We would like to say a huge thank you to all our speakers, chairs, sponsors and delegates who helped make the conference a success.