FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH
The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH OÖ) offers degree programmes as well as results of different fields of R&D. As one of four faculties of FH OÖ, the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria – Campus Wels (FHW) was founded in 1994, automation technology and simulations, measurement and testing technology, bio-energy and food technology, energy and the environmental sciences, innovation and technology management, materials and production technology.
For organizational reasons the FH OÖ group consists of 5 companies which vary in their core competences. The FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH is entrusted with the execution of all R&D projects. All research associates, junior researchers and senior researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria are exclusively employed by the FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH. FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH is in 100% ownership of the FH OÖ Management GmbH holding company. As stated in the company registers FHW is a non-profit-organization and does not generate any profit from its activities.
The Research Group for industrial computed tomography at the FHW consists of 2 professors, 14 researchers, 2 project assistants and about 4 trainees (April 2015). The main research areas are found in macro, micro and sub-micro industrial 3D X-ray computed tomography (XCT) in particular quantitative XCT for non-destructive testing (NDT), materials characterization and metrology, XCT simulation, 3D-image processing as well as visualization. The research group for XCT has co-operations with more than 60 companies, more than 10 ongoing XCT projects and coordinates 2 EU-FP7 projects on XCT. The FHW Research Group for industrial computed tomography is active in phase contrast XCT and Talbot–Lau grating interferometry XCT since 2011.
University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp Vision Lab’s (VLAB) core expertise is in the development of advanced model based image reconstruction for computed tomography (CT). It has unique expertise in the algorithmic and computational aspects of tomography. Whereas most tomography research takes place within specific application fields, such as medical imaging or materials science. VLAB focuses on the underlying general reconstruction problems that are shared between these applications with a strong emphasis on discrete tomography, dynamic CT, and parameter estimation based reconstruction. VLAB got worldwide attention when they built the Fastra I and II which proved to be worldwide the fastest PC for tomographic reconstruction.
