Evaluation of an advanced benchtop Micro-Computed Tomography system for quantifying porosities and pore-size distributions of two Brazilian Oxisols

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 832-841

  Vaz, Carlos M P ^a,b   De Maria, Isabella C ^c   Lasso, Paulo O ^a   Tuller, Markus ^b  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; ACQUISITION TIME; APPARENT POROSITY; BELGIUM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT SYSTEM; GRAY SCALE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; MICRO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MICRO-CT); MICRO-CT SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MINERAL PARTICLES; OXISOLS; PORE SPACE; SAMPLE SIZES; SAMPLE VOLUME; SCANNING RESOLUTION; SOIL RESEARCH; SOIL SAMPLE; X-RAY DETECTOR;

FILTRATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PORE SIZE; QUALITY CONTROL; ROTATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; FILTER; HEAVY METAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; OXISOL; POROSITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION; SEGMENTATION; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 83055169047     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0245     Document Type: Article

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