Main Tab

The Main tab is the single-file workflow: pick a dataset, set parameters, run Try / Full / AI Reco / TomoLog, view results.

Main tab

Layout

Top section — data selection

  • Browse Data Folder — pick the folder containing projection .h5 files.

  • Projection File — dropdown of HDF5 files in the folder, sorted by modification time (newest first).

  • Refresh — reload the file list.

  • Sync Acquisition — keep the dropdown in sync with a live acquisition (HDF5 files appear as they are written).

Data folder and file picker
Middle section — common parameters

  • Reconstruction method — recon or recon_steps

  • COR method — auto or manual

  • COR (try) — top-bar COR used as a fallback in batch mode

  • GPU — which CUDA device to use

  • Bin / nsino-per-chunk / start-row / end-row — common slice / binning options

Action buttons

  • Try — runs TomoCuPy try-reconstruction over the current slice range with a grid of candidate CORs. Output: <folder>_rec/try_center/<dataset>/center*.tiff.

  • View Try — opens the try-grid in the right-hand image panel with the COR slider active.

  • AI Reco — runs DINOv2 inference over the try-grid TIFFs and populates the COR field with the chosen value (see AI Reconstruction).

  • Full — runs Full reconstruction with the current COR.

  • View Full — opens the full reconstruction volume with the slice slider active.

  • TomoLog — generates a PDF report (see TomoLog Integration).

Reconstruction parameter tabs

Below the Main tab row are per-category tabs that expose every TomoCuPy flag: Recon, Hardening, Phase, Rings, Geometry, Data, Performance. Each tab’s values are persisted to a per-dataset JSON sidecar so loading the same file later restores them.

See Reconstruction Parameters for the full parameter reference.

Right-hand visualisation

The image panel provides:

  • matplotlib navigation toolbar (pan, zoom, save)

  • colormap dropdown (gray, viridis, magma, …)

  • Contrast — Min / Max inputs, Auto (5 – 95 % percentile), Reset

  • Slice / COR slider — scrubs through try CORs after View Try or through reconstructed slices after View Full

  • TomoLog panel — quick toggles (contrast min/max, output folder) feeding into the TomoLog dialog

Auto-contrast

The Auto button computes a 5 – 95 % percentile over the current slice and sets Min / Max accordingly. The same rule is re-applied automatically when you switch images via the slider, unless you override Min / Max manually.

Log output

Below the left panel, a colour-coded log shows command status, progress lines from TomoCuPy / AI Reco subprocesses, and warnings / errors.