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The technique of computed tomography (CT) has been used in various fields, such as medical, non-destructive testing (NDT), baggage checking, etc. A 3D-CT system based on the portable synchrotron “MIRRORCLE”-series will be a novel instrument for these fields. The hard x-rays generated from the “MIRRORCLE” have a wide energy spectrum. Light and thin materials create absorption and refraction contrast in x-ray images by the lower energy component (< 60 keV), and heavy and thick materials create absorption contrast by the higher energy component. In addition, images with higher resolutions can be obtained using “MIRRORCLE” with a small source size of micron order. Thus, high resolution 3D-CT images of specimens containing both light and heavy materials can be obtained using “MIRRORCLE” and a 2D-detector with a wide dynamic range. In this paper, the development and output of a 3D-CT system using the “MIRRORCLE-6X” and a flat panel detector are reported. A 3D image of a piece of concrete was obtained. The detector was a flat panel detector (VARIAN, PAXSCAN2520) with 254 μm pixel size. The object and the detector were set at 50 cm and 250 cm respectively from the x-ray source, so that the magnification was 5x. The x-ray source was a 50 μm Pt rod. The rotation stage and the detector were remote-controlled using a computer, which was originally created using LabView and Visual Basic software. The exposure time was about 20 minutes. The reconstruction calculation was based on the Feldkamp algorithm, and the pixel size was 50 μm. We could observe sub-mm holes and density differences in the object. Thus, the “MIRRORCLE-CV” with 1MeV electron energy, which has same x-ray generation principles, will be an excellent x-ray source for medical diagnostics and NDT. © 2007 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]