Northwestern Graduate on X-ray Microscopy
Dr. Tao Sun, a former doctoral student of NUANCE director Vinayak Dravid, spoke on Monday, Dec 3 at Ryan Hall.
Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. from Northwestern in 2009. Following two years of postdoctoral work with Murray Gibson, Dr. Sun has recently accepted a staff scientist position at APS (Advanced Photon Source) at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. APS provides the brightest storage ring-generated x-ray beams in the United States. APS facilities can be used for research in almost all scientific disciplines. Dr. Sun Tao is involved in development and management of x-ray imaging at APS.
He talked recently at Ryan Hall about CCSI, a novel X-ray imaging technique that generates 3d images of surfaces within a material sample, such as biological membranes.
Dr. Sun spent some time after his formal presentation explaining the sublteties of algorithm-corrected imaging techniques involved in imaging with X-ray beams.
