Imaging by synchrotron light sources is the dominant topic, but small scale laboratory imaging is also included in many talks and posters.
The conference is typically five days long and held in summer.
The 2020 installment of XRM in Taiwan was postponed two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Werner Meyer-Ilse was the chair of the International Program Committee for XRM99, but passed away in a car accident days before the conference.
[3][4] In his memory XRM hands out the Werner Meyer-Ilse Memorial Award to "young scientists for exceptional contributions to the advancement of X-ray microscopy".