Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar Series

Dr. Stefan Gerth
Dr. Stefan Gerth

Dr. Stefan Gerth will be the next presenter in this series. His talk, entitled, "Computed Tomography at the Fraunhofer EZRT applied for digital phenotyping" will be held at 4 pm on Wed., April 26 in E103 Beadle Center. There will be light refreshments served at 3:30 pm.
As the flyer states, "During the last years, X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been applied for the non-destructive visualization of belowground structures in pots. For analyzing objects, we use X-ray projections from diff erent points of view of the
object and reconstruct these projections to a 3D volume. Th e Fraunhofer Development Center X-ray technology (EZRT) drives the technological development and the application in a wide range of research areas. One of these areas is plant
phenotyping of belowground structures.
Due to the non-destructive nature of CT it is possible to track the growth of plant organs such as potato tubers, cassava storage roots, and the root architecture. Th us, the below-ground development of an individual plant can be observed
time dependently in natural soil. To virtually extract the root system out of the soil, new algorithms are used and developed for an automatic segmentation with high throughput."