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Project duration: 11/2012 - 11/2016

Principal investigator: RNDr. Miroslav Hain, PhD.

The project is focused on using of 3D measuring methods and multispectral optical measurement techniques in the documentation  and testing of cultural heritage objects. 

Scientific contribution of the Institute of Measurement Science will be focused mainly on the field of X-ray computed microtomography devoted to the nondestructive high resolution 3D measurement, visualisation and microstructure analysis of cultural heritage artefacts, development of optical multi-spectral measurement and imaging techniques, including infrared reflectography, infrared thermography and ultraviolet fluorescence. 

In 2013 there were two meetings of the Steering Committee and working groups of the project COSCH in Mainz (Germany) and London (UK) associated with conferences. At the workshop in Mainz the contribution Hain, M.: X-ray microtomography for 3D imaging of cultural heritage artefacts was presented. 

In 2014 the meeting of the Steering Committee and working groups of the project COSCH took place in Joensuu (Finland) and Belgrade (Serbia) and workshops were held in Novi Sad (Serbia), Brussels (Belgium) and Mainz (Germany). In the frame of working group WG2 of the project the Institute of Measurement Science conducted the pilot microtomographic measurement of the 3D shape and internal structure of selected artefact - ceramic fragment. The results are compared within the project with other optical measuring methods of 3D objects using structured light and terahertz imaging methods. 

In 2015 they took place the meetings of the Steering Committee and Working Groups of the project COST "Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage" in St Etienne (France) and Neuchatel (Switzerland) and meeting of investigators of the case study "Roman silver coins" in Warsaw (Poland). Institute of Measurement Science in the frame of the working group WG2 and group of researchers of the case study conducted in 2015 microtomographic measurement of the 3D shape and internal structure of two silver coins from Roman times and in cooperation with IMMM SAS conducted elemental analysis of coins with the help of EDS SEM - Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy on a Scanning Electron Microscope. At the meetings were subsequently presented results of the "Roman silver coins", namely the use of microtomography for the visualization of cracks and corrosion in the ancient Roman silver coins and material analysis using SEM EDS. From the position of vice chair of WG2 was also given a lecture entitled "Towards Future documentation techniques and multimodal 3D measurements".