Three-dimensional x-ray image manipulation

Max Robinson; Simon X. Godber; J. Paul Owain Evans; Richard John Lacey; N. C. Murray; P. Mason

doi:10.1117/12.172527

1 February 1994 Three-dimensional x-ray image manipulation

Max Robinson, Simon X. Godber, J. Paul Owain Evans, Richard John Lacey, N. C. Murray, P. Mason

Proceedings Volume 2093, Substance Identification Analytics; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.172527
Event: Substance Identification Technologies, 1993, Innsbruck, Austria

Abstract

A program of work has been carried out over a number of years to develop X-ray equipment having a full three-dimensional (i.e., binocular stereoscopic) capability. Early equipment produced for H.M. Customs and Excise was based on basic line-scan technology. More recently a system has been developed in collaboration with the PSDB, Home Office, which uses folded array line-scan sensors and has a materials identification capability. Since the information contained in these images can be assumed to exist on a number of identifiable depth planes it can be manipulated in the same way as the slice data available from computed tomography (CT) type equipment. A considerable amount of software is available for use with such CT data which enables image models to be built. The current program of work involves interfacing the new 3-D X-ray technology to the existing software routines in an attempt to automatically produce 2 1/2-D image models from the full stereoscopic (3-D) information.

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Max Robinson, Simon X. Godber, J. Paul Owain Evans, Richard John Lacey, N. C. Murray, and P. Mason "Three-dimensional x-ray image manipulation", Proc. SPIE 2093, Substance Identification Analytics, (1 February 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.172527

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