The Santa Chiara Fab Lab is a strategic project of the University of Siena, born in 2016 as a digital manufacturing laboratory and co-design space. The Fab Lab is specialised in additive and subtractive manufacturing, it is equipped with cuttingedge equipment for the rapid prototyping of Internet of Things, wearable technology and smart objects. The research domains include the cultural heritage, healthcare, and Made in Italy
The group works in the following areas: Agri food chemistry for analysis of the inorganic component, metabolomics and characterization of the geographical origin. chemistry of cultural heritage for restoration, conservation diagnostics and study of materials and art objects
The research activities concern: Research on the history of Goldsmithing and of Jewellery. and research on Gemmology.
The research group works on: sustainable economy, new technologies, communication, digital heritage, and applied sciences to cultural heritage are the five interdisciplinary themes that are: sustainable economy of cultural heritage. new technologies in cultural heritage research. communication of cultural heritage. digital heritage. cultural heritage and applied sciences
The research group has over a decade of experience in conducting environmental biomonitoring projects with magnetic analyses at the Paleomagnetism Laboratory (INGV) and chemical analyses at the Applied Botany Laboratory (UNISI).
The research project focused on the Fascist internment system in Tuscany between 1940, when Italy joined the Second World War, and 1944, when the region was liberated by the Allied Army. During the war, the Fascist government and the Italian Social Republic adopted a series of measures restricting individual freedom. This led to the isolation, imprisonment, marginalization and control of anyone deemed dangerous for public security, even only on the basis of mere suspicion. These provisions resulted in a widespread and articulated network of internment devices that affected different categories of persons.
The MeB project, resulted from the collaboration between the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Bargello Museums. Its main objective was the development of shared, applied research, aimed at the modernization of the scientific analysis processes and art-historical study of small-scale metal production of the Early Modern age. Moreover, it aimed at elaborating new operational solutions of potential interest for similar cultural contexts, also throughout the use of 3D laser scans.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for geometric calibration of a cone-beam tomography equipment, in particular CT or pinhole-SPECT, that derives the misalignment parameters from the scan data of a generic object, thus without resorting to specific test-objects or dummies.
