Water uptake patterns and reconstruction of root system architectures from MRI images
(2012) 4th International Congress EUROSOIL — Location: Bari, Italy (2.July.2012)
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- Water uptake of plant roots is monitored using non-invasive imaging by nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The evaluation of observed patterns and conclusions on the underlying mechanisms require further comparison with numerical simulation using basic physical principles on water fluxes in soils. This also requires an unambiguous reconstruction of the entire root system from the partly noisy and discontinuous 3D information. In this paper we compare two methods for doing this : a manual method using 3D virtual reality system with manual tracking of root strands and a automated image processing method.
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Forschungzcentrum, Agrosphere, IBG-3 Juelich, Germany University Bonn, Autonomous Intelligent Systems Bonn, Germany RWTH Aachen University - ITMC Aachen, Germany Forschungzcentrum, Agrosphere, IBG-2 Juelich, Germany
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Pohlmeier, A., Stingaciu, L., Schulz, H., Steffen, M., Haber-Pohlmeier, S., Zilken, H., Javaux, M., Van Dusschoten, D., Behnke, S., & Vereecken, H. (2012). Water uptake patterns and reconstruction of root system architectures from MRI images. Proceedings, p. 514, S10.01c-6. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/225217