journalArticle Article A1 Jan Van den Bulcke aut author ug_LA20 0000-0003-2939-5408 Matthieu Boone aut author ug_WE05 0000-0002-5478-4141 Joris Van Acker aut author ug_LA20 0000-0002-8961-0176 Luc Van Hoorebeke aut author ug_TW06 ug_WE05 0000-0002-1943-1359 eng As wood is prone to fungal degradation, fundamental research is necessary to increase our knowledge aiming at product improvement. Several imaging modalities are capable of visualizing fungi, but the X-ray equipment presented in this paper can envisage fungal mycelium in wood non-destructively in three dimensions with sub-micron resolution. Four types of wood subjected to the action of the white rot fungus Coriolus versicolor (Linnaeus) Quélet (CTB 863 A) were scanned using an X-ray based approach. Comparison of wood volumes before and after fungal exposure, segmented manually or semi-automatically, showed the presence of the fungal mass on and in the wood samples and therefore demonstrated the usefulness of computed X-ray tomography for mycological and wood research. Further improvements to the experimental set-up are necessary in order to resolve individual hyphae and enhance segmentation. Technology and Engineering MICROTOMOGRAPHY QUANTIFICATION RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY ROT DECAY imaging computed tomography (CT) SEM 3D X-ray MELANIN fungus wood http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-675607 10.1017/S1431927609990419 000270265600003 1431-9276 2009 1431-9276 2009 15 5 395 402 2009 No license (in copyright) published https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/675607/file/786744 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/675607/file/786751 application/pdf restricted ug 675607 2009-06-02T17:54:40Z 2026-03-31T14:20:45Z A1 VABB-1