Professor Dudley Creagh, Professor and Director of Cultural Heritage Research, is an expert in the design and development of new analytical equipment, especially equipment using synchrotron radiation, for the study of materials, especially cultural heritage artefacts. He had led research on such topics as valuable medals (e.g., Victoria Cross), the protection of objects against corrosion, Australian aboriginal bark paintings, and the degradation ofiron-gall inks on parchments, movie film, and painted surfaces. David Bradley is a Reader at the University of Surrey, Secretary of the International Radiation Physics Society and edits the journal Applied Radiation and Isotopes. His research interests concern photon scattering, radioanalytical techniques for determination of trace element concentrations and the development of synchrotron techniques for the characterisation of media.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Synchrotron Radiation and its Use in Art, Archaeometry, and Cultural Heritage Studies (D. Creagh)Chapter 2. Synchrotron Imaging for Archaeology, Art History, Conservation and Paleontology (L. Bertrand)Chapter 3. Holistic Modeling of Gas and Aerosol Deposition and the Degradation of Cultural Objects (I.S. Cole, D.A. Paterson and D. Lau)Chapter 4. Examples of Investigations into the Degradation of Photographic Materials making use of Advanced Analytical Techniques (G. Di Pietro)Chapter 5. Hyperspectral Imaging: a New Technique for the Non-Invasive Study of Artworks (M. Kubik)

Professor Dudley Creagh, Professor and Director of Cultural Heritage Research, is an expert in the design and development of new analytical equipment, especially equipment using synchrotron radiation, for the study of materials, especially cultural heritage artefacts. He had led research on such topics as valuable medals (e.g., Victoria Cross), the protection of objects against corrosion, Australian aboriginal bark paintings, and the degradation ofiron-gall inks on parchments, movie film, and painted surfaces. David Bradley is a Reader at the University of Surrey, Secretary of the International Radiation Physics Society and edits the journal Applied Radiation and Isotopes. His research interests concern photon scattering, radioanalytical techniques for determination of trace element concentrations and the development of synchrotron techniques for the characterisation of media.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Synchrotron Radiation and its Use in Art, Archaeometry, and Cultural Heritage Studies (D. Creagh)Chapter 2. Synchrotron Imaging for Archaeology, Art History, Conservation and Paleontology (L. Bertrand)Chapter 3. Holistic Modeling of Gas and Aerosol Deposition and the Degradation of Cultural Objects (I.S. Cole, D.A. Paterson and D. Lau)Chapter 4. Examples of Investigations into the Degradation of Photographic Materials making use of Advanced Analytical Techniques (G. Di Pietro)Chapter 5. Hyperspectral Imaging: a New Technique for the Non-Invasive Study of Artworks (M. Kubik)

Professor Dudley Creagh, Professor and Director of Cultural Heritage Research, is an expert in the design and development of new analytical equipment, especially equipment using synchrotron radiation, for the study of materials, especially cultural heritage artefacts. He had led research on such topics as valuable medals (e.g., Victoria Cross), the protection of objects against corrosion, Australian aboriginal bark paintings, and the degradation ofiron-gall inks on parchments, movie film, and painted surfaces. David Bradley is a Reader at the University of Surrey, Secretary of the International Radiation Physics Society and edits the journal Applied Radiation and Isotopes. His research interests concern photon scattering, radioanalytical techniques for determination of trace element concentrations and the development of synchrotron techniques for the characterisation of media.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Synchrotron Radiation and its Use in Art, Archaeometry, and Cultural Heritage Studies (D. Creagh)Chapter 2. Synchrotron Imaging for Archaeology, Art History, Conservation and Paleontology (L. Bertrand)Chapter 3. Holistic Modeling of Gas and Aerosol Deposition and the Degradation of Cultural Objects (I.S. Cole, D.A. Paterson and D. Lau)Chapter 4. Examples of Investigations into the Degradation of Photographic Materials making use of Advanced Analytical Techniques (G. Di Pietro)Chapter 5. Hyperspectral Imaging: a New Technique for the Non-Invasive Study of Artworks (M. Kubik)