Performance Modeling of Scintillator-Based X-Ray Imaging Systems
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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We recently have been involved in developing x-ray detector systems for industrial NDE applications. A two-step process is commonly used to convert the x-ray flux transmitted through the part under test into a digitized image, with individual pixel values corresponding to the x-ray properties in different regions of the part. First, a scintillator material absorbs x rays and emits light in proportion to the amount of x-ray energy absorbed. Second, this light is converted into an electronic signal by a photodetector device. This electronic signal can then be digitized and stored in a computer system for image display and analysis.