Contact

For general questions about the initiative or this site, please contact the group at IISICCA-contact@uiowa.edu.

Conferences and Workshops

Begun in March 2020, this ongoing conference was organized here at the University of Iowa to bring together an international group of researchers from the natural, computer, humanistic, and library sciences to discuss and present on topics related to the enhanced imaging of manuscripts. Learn more...

This 2016-17 Mellon Sawyer seminar was held at the University of Iowa as an interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to mapping cultural exchanges across Eurasia from roughly 400-1450 CE, by focusing on the development, distribution and sharing of manuscript technologies. Learn more...

Partners and Collaborators

The mission of the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging (IIBI) is to foster efficient and cooperative inter-disciplinary and cross-college research and discovery in biomedical imaging, and to improve training and education within the broader community at the University of Iowa. Learn more...

Conservation & Collections Care is responsible for activities that relate to the care and handling of physical materials in circulating and non-circulating Libraries’ collections. Learn more...

One of the leading university art collections in the country, with collections housing approximately 15,500 objects. Learn more...

A distinctive degree-granting program that integrates training in book arts practice and technique with research into the history and culture of books. Learn more...

Open Access Research Article

"Using computed tomography to recover hidden medieval fragments beneath early modern leather bindings, first results" 

Published in Heritage Science (2023) 11:82

Written by Eric Ensley, Katherine Tachau, Susan Walsh, Honghai Zhang, Giselle Simon, Laura Moser, Jarron Atha, Paul Dilley, Eric Hoffman, and Milan Sonka. 

CT Scans of Medieval Fragments In Early Modern Leather Bindings

3D images stored as NIfTI files for CT scans of book spines. 

Three scanned books are labeled as SJEE1, SJEE2, and SJEE3. 

CT scan of each book is stored as 6 segments. 

3D NIfTI image can be viewed by medical image viewing software such as 3D Slicer (https://www.slicer.org/), ITK-SNAP (http://www.itksnap.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php), and MRIcor (https://people.cas.sc.edu/rorden/mricro/).  

The images can be downloaded from OneDrive here: NIfTI

LogismosLayers: Open-access tool for extracting hidden fragment surfaces from CT scans

The tool and companion example data and documentation can be downloaded here

The 'App' folder contains the open-access tool for 64-bit Windows. Download all files in this folder and run LogismosLayers.exe 

The 'Documentation' folder contains the user's guide of LogismosLayers. Download all files in this folder and open ReadMe.pdf or ReadMe.html.

The 'ExampleData' folder contains example data as described in the above user's guide.