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X-Ray Computed Tomography for Geometry Acquisition

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Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

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X-ray computed tomography (CT) uses penetrating radiation measurements from many angles about an object to reconstruct cross sectional images of the object interior [1–2]. The images are two dimensional maps of the X-ray linear attenuation coefficient for small volume elements in the object defined by the effective X-ray beam size. The CT images provide quantitative measures of component feature dimensions and density as related to the linear X-ray attenuation of the material under study.

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    R. Bossi, G. Georgeson, J. Nelson & J. Shrader

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  1. Center for NDE, Ames Laboratory (USDOE), Ames, Iowa, USA

    Donald O. Thompson

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

    Donald O. Thompson

  3. Center for NDE, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Dale E. Chimenti

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Dale E. Chimenti

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Bossi, R., Crews, A., Georgeson, G., Nelson, J., Shrader, J. (1993). X-Ray Computed Tomography for Geometry Acquisition. In: Thompson, D.O., Chimenti, D.E. (eds) Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2848-7_44

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