iMorph : A 3D morphological tool to fully analyze all kind of cellular materials

This paper presents the software iMorph developed in our laboratoryin order to perform geometrical measurements on porous media from 3D images (!CT, MRI...). The different morphological and segmentation methods originally developed for metallic foam [1] have been extended to cellular materials. We present here a study performed on a large panel of different cellular materials such as ceramic sponges, sintered polyethylene balls, and trabecular Bones. After introducing specificity and needs of 3D analysis software, we briefly remind the automatic segmentation methods used to perform size and structural measurements (cell and throat size, tortuosity, connectivity, specific surface, skeleton analysis...). Then we present the specific parameters used for a better topology understanding of the different cellular materials.