X-ray Phase-Contrast Tomography for Reading Carbon-based Ink

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Mocella claimed to read only ______

letters

Some scholars are cautious about the letters, not least because the group did not publish enough information for others to replicate the ______

analysis

Seales was chasing a new idea for reading carbon-based ______

ink

Seales concluded that the findings were a ______

bust

X-ray phase-contrast tomography is a highly sensitive form of ______ that can detect subtle density changes in a material

imaging

Seales provided custom-designed ______ for the scrolls, built using data from his CT scans

cases

Seales thinks the researchers were seeing 'ghosts'—random patterns in the papyrus’ fiber structure that just happen to look like ______

letters

Delattre took Banana Boy and another scroll to ______ without Seales

Grenoble

Phase-contrast tomography alone is not sufficient to read the Herculaneum scrolls in any meaningful ______

way

News stories around the world reported that Herculaneum scrolls had been ______ at last

deciphered

Explore the use of X-ray phase-contrast tomography in reading carbon-based ink, a sensitive imaging technique that can detect density changes caused by applying ink to papyrus. Discover how a particle accelerator like Synchrotron Soleil can produce the required beam for this advanced imaging method.

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