The Art Gallery of NSW’s Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici, emerged from obscurity in 1971 and is considered to be a ¾ length version of an earlier ½ length composition in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Simon 1983). An X-ray image was published in 1987 (Simon) showing that another portrait of a man in a wide brimmed hat holding a book exists underneath the painting.
Since the 1980s, many more...
Lipid-based drug delivery systems have great potential in biomedical applications. They comprise of the self-assembly of biocompatible lipids, where the structures they form dictates the rate of release of drug. However, their potential has been limited by an incomplete understanding of their fate in vivo. The presented research gives insight into the response of lipidic membranes to exposure...
The physical extraction of fossilised remains from rocks enables quantitative physiological investigation of bone-dimensions, volume, and porosity, however leads to the destruction of valuable contextual information and soft-tissue remains within the matrix.
Conventional and synchrotron-based X-ray computed tomography (XCT) have been utilised for many years as critical tools in uncovering...
The neutron imaging instrument DINGO is operational since October 2014 to support research at ANSTO. DINGO had a high subscription rate from a broad national and international scientific user community and for routine quality control for defense, industrial, cultural heritage and archaeology applications. DINGO provides a useful tool to give a different insight into objects because of...
The concept of ghost imaging emerged from visible-light optics a little over two decades ago. Since then, its use has spread to x-ray, electron and atom optics. However, the method appears never to have been reported for neutron optics.
In a nutshell, ghost imaging enables spatial resolution multiplexing of a detector by patterning the illumination beam. Typical ghost imaging protocols are...
High-energy ion microscopes attached to an ion accelerator system are highly versatile research instruments for applications in high-resolution material investigations capable of precise tuning for a given sample or task. Their design and flexibility is usually closely related to properties of the accelerator system. We used a suite of ion nanobeams (proton, alpha, carbon and oxygen ions) with...
