Recon3D

*** Still a work in progress ***

Recon3D is a set of algorithms developed to analyze data collected using dark field X-ray microscopy (DFXRM). DFXRM is a non-destructive technique which allows to select a single grain embedded in a polycrystalline sample and to reconstruct, in 3D, its shape and how crystal orientations are distributed in its interior. The technique has a spatial resolution of about 100 nm and an angular resolution superior to what provided by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

From the images collected at different sample rotation angles $\omega$, and at different rocking and rolling angles $\phi$ and $\chi$, Recon3D returns

1. A 3D reconstruction of the shape of the grain investigated using DFXRM
2. A 3D map showing how crystal orientations and strain are distributed in the sample

The white paper outling the principles used for developing the softwrae can be found here.

Recon3D is designed to consider, as input, topo-tomo data sets from ID06 at ESRF. The program takes data where a sample is rotated around the diffrx and at every point, a mosaicity scan is done. This is done through a forward projection algorithm to calculate a given voxel's reflected spot position on the detector.

Future versions will be able to do reconstruction based on strain datasets.

Preliminaries

Running Recon3D requires having Miniconda2 and Fable on your Panda2 account. To install the packages, run the script available here. If you get an error message and need to change a permission path, check this tip.

Reading data from .edf files to a NumPy array

The script getdata.py reads data from .edf files and outputs a NumPy array with the dimensions tilt1-steps x tilt2-steps x omega-steps x img_xlen x img_ylen, where tilt1 and tilt2 are the two top tilts in the LAB goniometer at ID06. Omega is the topo-tomo rotation stage. The command to create the array is the following:

$ python getdata.py [datadir] [dataname] [bgdir] [bgname] [poi] [imgsize] [outputpath] [outputdirname]

Arguments are the following:

Argument	Description	Example
datadir	Directory of .edf files.	/data/experiment1
dataname	Name of data files.	run1_
bgdir	Directory of background .edf files.	/data/background1
bgname	Name of background files.	bg1_
poi	Center point for region of interest.	512,512
imgsize	Size of region of interest.	200,200
outputpath	Path to put the output directory.	/analysis/output
outputdirname	Name of output dir.	exp1_array

If MPI is available, the following command will run the script in 10 processes at the same time. This will vastly increase the speed.

$ mpirun -n 10 python getdata.py [datadir] [dataname] [bgdir] [bgname] [poi] [imgsize] [outputpath] [outputdirname]

Running the reconstruction algorithm on a data set

$ mpirun -n 10 python recon3d.py [initfile]

How to contribute

Check the wikipages on contribution and on suggested software.