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Modeling the influence of the geometrical unsharpness on the neutron radiography and tomography images of porous materials
I.Yu. Zel 1

1 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
141980, Russia, Dubna, Joliot-Curie St. 6

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DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-1478

Pages: 327-333.

Full text of article: English language.

Abstract:
Beam divergence is one of the instrument resolution parameters in neutron computed tomography. In pinhole geometry, due to the finite size of the source, geometric unsharpness affects the transmission images and therefore influences the reconstructed data. In this paper, we propose an approach for deterministic simulation of this effect for a voxelized 3D object. The idea behind the proposed approach is to use multiple point sources at a pinhole position and collect transmission images from each of them. The implementation was done using the ASTRA toolbox by calculating cone beam projections from each point source. This approach was applied to a porous phantom. Artifacts associated with beam divergence were identified in the reconstructed data. The influence of beam divergence on the segmentation of pores by binarization of the reconstructed data has been considered.

Keywords:
geometrical unsharpness, neutron tomography, ASTRA toolbox, porous material.

Citation:
Zel IY. Modeling the influence of the geometrical unsharpness on the neutron radiography and tomography images of porous materials. Computer Optics 2025; 49(2): 327-333. DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-1478.

Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by Russian Science Foundation, grant № 23-72-01031, https://rscf.ru/project/23-72-01031/.

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