NDLI: Beam Hardening Correction for Middle-Energy Industrial Computerized Tomography

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Author	Hewei Gao Li Zhang Zhiqiang Chen Yuxiang Xing Shuanglei Li
Copyright Year	1963
Abstract	In this paper, a new beam hardening correction (BHC) method for middle-energy industrial computerized tomography (CT) is presented. Our method is derived from linearization and is straightforward without iteration involved. The linearization is commonly used as a preprocessing method in BHC. Conventionally, only one-material objects can be conveniently corrected by linearization. In industrial CT, two-material objects, especially cylinders with high-Z material outside and low-Z material inside are frequently encountered. Our approach focuses on this kind of objects. The new method works well as long as the two-material object meets the conditions that the thickness of the outer material (usually wall) is thick enough and the second-order item of the Taylor expansion of the linearization is relatively small. We pointed out and proved that there is an approximately constant scaling factor difference between our linearization step and an ideal correction based on prior knowledge of objects. The scaling factor magnifies the attenuation coefficient of the inner material after reconstruction. Therefore, a weighting function is introduced into our algorithm as a restoration. To sum up, there are three steps in our method: 1) correct raw projections by the mapping function of the outer material; 2) reconstruct the cross-section image from the modified projections; 3) scale the image by a weighting function. With this method, the beam hardening artifacts are greatly reduced and the overall attenuation coefficients are accurately obtained. We also presented a compensation step to remove the countercupping artifacts in case that the conditions are not fully met. Our method is well verified in both numerical simulations and practical experiments on a 450-KeV CT system
Sponsorship	IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab. APS College of William and Mary Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility NASA Defence Nuclear Agency Sandia National Laboratories Jet Propulsion Laboratory Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab IEEE/NPPS Radiat. Effects Committee Defence Nuclear Agency/DoD Sandia National Laboratories/DOE Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Phillips Lab./DoD
Starting Page	2796
Ending Page	2807
Page Count	12
File Size	2957168
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189499
Volume Number	53
Issue Number	5
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-10-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer industry Computed tomography Image reconstruction Attenuation Filtration Physics X-ray imaging Taylor series Image restoration Raw materials linearization Beam hardening correction cupping artifacts industrial computerized tomography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nuclear and High Energy Physics Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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