Parametric boundary reconstruction algorithm for industrial CT metrology application

Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-133

  Yin, Zhye ^a   Khare, Kedar ^a   De Man, Bruno ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT NDE); Parametric shape estimation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INFORMATION; BOUNDARY PARAMETERS; BOUNDARY RECONSTRUCTION; BOUNDARY REPRESENTATIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CT IMAGE; CT SYSTEM; DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY; GRID SIZE; HIGH ENERGY X RAY; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; IMAGE PIXELS; INDUSTRIAL CT; ITERATIVE APPROACH; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; NDT/NDE; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING AND EVALUATION (NDT/NDE); NOVEL ALGORITHM; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; OBJECT OF INTERESTS; PARAMETRIC SHAPE ESTIMATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROCESS TIME; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SINOGRAMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEASUREMENTS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIXELS; REPAIR; SCANNING;

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 69549091890     PISSN: 08953996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/XST-2009-0217     Document Type: Article

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