Multiscale structure characterisation by either (i) scanning SWAXS imaging or (ii) combined full-field tomographic imaging and SWAXS, the latter often in scanning imaging mode, is core experimental capability at ForMAX. For a brief discussion of the techniques, see the linked publication below.
Scanning SWAXS imaging can be carried out in either 2D (SWAXS microscopy or slicing tomography), 3D (SWAXS tomography), or 4D (SWAXS tensor tomography). In practice, the scanning stages are limited to approximately 7 mm/s horizontally and 5 mm/s vertically. For reasonably scattering samples, for which 10 ms exposure is sufficient, data acquisition typically takes a few minutes, 1-2 hours, and ten hours or more in 2D, 3D, and 4D, respectively.
In combined μCT and (sc)SWAXS experiments, switching between full-field and scattering modes takes between 20 seconds and five minutes, depending on details of the experiment. Note that the distance between the sample and the WAXS detector is about twice as large in combined experiments compared to the nominal, due to space requirements of the microscope.