All SkyScan micro-CTs are supplied with user friendly, PC based acquisition software. Control software is also included with the special purpose stages (cooling stage, material testing stage, and micro-positioning stage) for the 1172 and 1174 .

SkyScan's volumetric reconstruction software "Nrecon" uses the set of acquired angular projections to create a set of cross section slices through the object. The program uses a modified Feldkemp algorithm with automatic adaptation to the scan geometry in each micro-CT scanner. Reconstructed slices can be saved in BMP, TIFF, JPG or numerical data format. The program can run on one PC or distribute the reconstruction across a cluster of several networked PCs working in parallel to achieve exceptional speed. Nrecon measures and adapts to differences in computer performance and network connection for equitable job distribution. Reconstruction includes beam-hardening correction, alignment optimization, ring artifact correction, reconstruction in a restricted volume of interest, reconstruction of objects wider than the field of view, external and internal calibration into Housfield units and interactive density window selection.

Nrecon accepts large format angular projection images to reconstruct cross section images with up to 8000 x 8000 pixels. User-friendly batch processing allows many reconstruction jobs with different settings to be run sequentially without operator input.

The reconstructed set of slices can be flexibly viewed in SkyScan's DataViewer software program. Images are displayed as a slice-by-slice movie or as three orthogonal sections, centered at any selected point inside the reconstructed space. DataViewer also has a viewing mode with three intersecting orthogonal sections, which can be turned and each intersecting slice independently moved by simple mouse control.

Additional features include variable smoothing, saving interpolated data sets in saggital or coronal section, measuring and saving distances and intensity profiles. The format converter utility "T-conv" converts between TIFF, BMP, and JPEG files with adjustment of color palette, inversion, renaming, resizing, and combining of data sets

All SkyScan scanners are equipped with a software package for complete 2D and 3D quantitative analysis of reconstructed volumes from micro-CT scans, the program CT-Analyzer, and software for realistic 3D visualization of scanned objects, the CT-Volume program. These programs can run on the supplied workstation or on any of your laboratory's desktop or notebook computers.