Researches on the Key Technologies for Tomographic Gamma Scanning

Abstract

Tomographic Gamma Scanning (TGS) method is one of the most advanced non-destructive assay (NDA) methods. But for measuring heterogeneously distributed media with medium- and high-density, there are still three main problems: experiment’s method of the calibration of detection efficiency of TGS is more difficult and complicated because of large voxels, “point-to-point” model and average model can’t calculate high-density samples accurately in transmission image reconstruction and computational cost is very large for correction factor in emission image. Calibration of detection efficiency using Monte Carlo method shorten calibration cycle greatly, a new Monte Carlo statistical iteration in TGS transmission image reconstruction method which is based on MC calculation and Numerical Analysis is presented, give a chance for measuring high-density samples; the division method and pre-calculation method in reconstructing TGS emission image is used which saves a great lot of computation time and provide a fast reconstruction algorithm for emission image. Above methods apply to TGS experiment device, the relative errors between experiment and MC calibration were less 5%; the relative errors between reconstructed values and the reference values were less than 4% in transmission image; the corrected experimental results were compared to the standard values and the relative deviation was found to be 7%. It took no more than one hour to complete the reconstruction of TGS emission image for a sample model with 3×3×3 voxels using a 2.0G computer.