Tomography Workshop: HTTomo

Nov 02. till Nov 03.

Tomography Workshop: HTTomo

Across two days the workshop will help current, prospective, and potential users working on a wide spectrum of tomography applications across Diamond’s Imaging and Microscopy beamlines.

The workshop aims to ensure that the tomography users at Diamond are comfortable with the HTTomo reconstruction software: from building bespoke pipelines to submitting jobs and interpreting the results. 

Date
02/11/20262026-11-02 - 03/11/20262026-11-03
Location
Diamond Light Source
Link
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Content

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The event will:

  • Introduce the basics of tomographic imaging, data acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis
  • Present HTTomo and its role in tomography data processing
  • Demonstrate how to build and run custom HTTomo pipelines
  • Train users to submit HTTomo jobs on the cluster and troubleshoot common issues
  • Showcase real-world data processing workflows using HTTomo
  • Introduce Diamond’s new web interface for data analysis and demonstrate HTTomo job submission from a web browser

What is HTTomo?

HTTomo (High Throughput Tomography software) is a Python-based framework for the processing and reconstruction of parallel-beam tomography data. Developed by the Data Analysis Group at Diamond Light Source and initiated in 2022, HTTomo was created to address the increasing demands of large-scale tomography experiments. 

With the Diamond-II upgrade, the volume, complexity, and resolution of tomography data are expected to grow significantly. HTTomo leverages advances in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and multi-GPU technologies to enable efficient data streaming, accelerated processing, and high-throughput reconstruction of large datasets, helping researchers analyse data faster and at greater scale. 

Agenda

The event will include an introduction to the imaging and tomography beamlines at Diamond (including tours), talks on the theory and background of tomography reconstruction as well as practical tutorial session on data processing and reconstruction with HTTomo, including submitting jobs to the cluster from a command line and via the web browser. 

Monday 2 November

Morning session (Rooms G53 / G54)  

09:00  

Registration with Coffee  

10:00 

Welcome and Introduction to Diamond  

Julia Parker  

10:15

Workshop introduction and Day 1 agenda 

Daniil Kazantsev  

10:20

Tomography basics: Part 1: Introduction to Tomography

Alexender Liptak  
10:50

Coffee break

  
11:05

Introduction to HTTomo

 Daniil Kazantsev
11:30 Tomography basics: Part 2: Running a tomography experiment at I12 using HTTomo

Alexander Liptak

12:00  

Group photo and Lunch Break  

Afternoon session (Rooms G53/G54)   

13:00   

Tutorial I: getting started  

Daniil Kazantsev / Yousef Moazzam   

15:00  

Coffee Break  

15:30 

Tutorial II:  running end-to-end pipelines on Diamond HPC 

Daniil Kazantsev / Yousef Moazzam  

17:00 

Break 

17:30  

Poster session in the Atrium  

18:30  

Dinner in the Atrium  

  

Tuesday 3 November

Morning session (Rooms G53 / G54)  

09:00   

Introduction to Day 2 of the workshop 

Daniil Kazantsev  

09:05  

Introduction to Diamond’s tomography beamlines 

Beamline staff 

09:45  

Tours of tomography beamlines  

10:30 

Coffee Break  

11:00 

Web-based interfaces for HTTomo  

Yousef Moazzam  

11:30 

Overview of visualisation tools for HTTomo output 

Benedikt Daurer  

12:00  

Lunch Break  

Afternoon session (Rooms G53/G54)  

13:00 

Tutorial III:   

Using HTTomo from a web interface and visualisation of its output  

Daniil Kazantsev / Yousef Moazzam   

14:30  

Coffee Break  

15:00  

Tutorial IV:  

Q & A session, debugging, intermediates, installation 

Daniil Kazantsev /Yousef Moazzam  

 

Application

Applications are now closed. 

If your application is successful, there will be a £150 fee to attend the event. 

Applications will be reviewed and decisions communicated by Friday 18 September. 

Accommodation and travel

Accommodation has been booked for attendees at Ridgeway House, Diamond's onsite accommodation for users, for the nights of Sunday 1 and Monday 2 November. Diamond will cover the cost of accommodation for these two nights.

Meals and refreshments will be provided throughout the event and will be included in the fee.

Attendees will be required to arrange and cover the cost of their own transport to and from Diamond.

Diamond Light Source

Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.

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