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This is a really fun format.

It seems that this is their first month in posting --- I spent a minute looking for older scan, before checking the wayback machine.

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Hopefully, in the future, they add some background information on how they do the scan, etc as well. I find myself just as interested in that now.

The page mentions it's a CT scan. But from the looks of it, not the kind one would find in a hospital meant for humans. Probably something for research/industrial applications on much smaller samples, the materials science people at my university have one. They spit out a pretty usable voxel format (DICOM).

The machines are called "micro CT"

My first thought was neutron radiography, but this makes more sense. Neutron X-ray hybrid scanning can capture some amazing images.

https://phoenixwi.com/neutron-radiography/neutron-image-gall...

DICOM is also the format used at hospitals for medical images. At least in radiotherapy.

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