Ryan Warr, a 3rd year PhD student in the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility at the University of Manchester was the winner of the 2021 CoSeC Impact Award.

His research concerns the advancement of Spectral X-ray Computed Tomography imaging techniques, and his application described how his research, enabled through the Collaborative Computational Project for Tomographic Imaging (CCPi),  aids the precise identification, visualisation and analysis of materials, enabling advanced imaging across fields including medical imaging, geology and security scanning.

Ryan built on and developed existing imaging software to improve the quality of X-ray images by extracting the maximum amount of relevant information from poor quality images. The research aids the precise identification, visualisation and analysis of materials, enabling advanced imaging across fields including medical imaging, geology and security scanning.

A case study on Ryan’s research that won him the Impact Award is available below. Ryan is now an Image and Data Scientist at Silveray.