Development of an X-ray computed tomography (CT) system with sparse sources: Application to three-phase pipe flow visualization

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 667-678

  Hu, Bin ^a   Stewart, Colin ^b   Hale, Colin P ^a   Lawrence, Christopher J ^a   Hall, Andrew R W ^c   Zwiens, Holger ^d   Hewitt, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Frontier Engineering Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; X RAYS;

BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; INVERSE MATRIX; ROTATING FILTER WHEEL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; THREE-PHASE FLOW; X-RAY IMAGING;

EID: 28044472237     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-005-1008-2     Document Type: Article

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