Paul A Roth

US Patent:

20200182808, Jun 11, 2020

Filed:

Nov 12, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/681053

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Evan DOLLEY - Niskayuna NY, US
Anjali SINGHAL - Niskayuna NY, US
Albert CERRONE - Notre Dame IN, US
Daniel RUSCITTO - Niskayuna NY, US
Rajiv SAMPATH - West Chester OH, US
Martin MORRA - Niskayuna NY, US
Krzysztof LESNICKI - Asheville NC, US
Paul ROTH - West Chester OH, US

International Classification:

G01N 23/046
G06T 7/10
G06T 11/00
G06T 17/20

Abstract:

A system and method are provided including an inclusion module to receive a powder sample from a powder source; a computed tomography equipment; a memory for storing program instructions; an inclusion processor, coupled to the memory, and in communication with the inclusion module, and operative to execute program instructions to: receive the powder sample; execute a computed tomography (CT) scan process of the received sample to generate a first dataset including one or more images; identify inclusions in the one or more images, via a segmentation process; reconstruct, via a reconstruction process, the identified inclusion into a 3D representation; measure the identified inclusion; mark the inclusions on one or more image slices from the 3D representations; and determine whether the powder source is contaminated based on the one or more marked images. Numerous other aspects are provided.