Calculation of effective pore diameters in porous filtration membranes with image analysis

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 427-434

  She, F H ^a   Tung, K L ^b   Kong, L X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Effective pore diameter; Euclidean distance transform (EDT); Filtration separation; Image analysis; Particle permeation; Porous membrane; Virtual circle

Indexed keywords

FILTRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE TRANSFORM (EDT); POROUS FILTRATION MEMBRANES;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 39749122750     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2007.02.023     Document Type: Article

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