Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 44, Issue 3, 969(2015)
Refraction problems in continuous wave THz-CT
Terahertz CT setup was designed and constructed by backward wave Oscillator which has been used to perform computed tomography of 3D objects. However, the imaging quality is affected by strong refraction from materials with the refractive index greater than 1.5 in objects. At first,the cross section image of a teflon modal was reconstructed from the projection dataset by the filteredbackprojection algorithm , then high refraction effects were analyzed. Finally, a human tooth sample was scanned and the cross section images were reconstructed to reveal its internal structures. However, the accuracy and resolution of the images were still limited owing to the high refraction effects. And the terahertz transmission depth in teeth was seriously affected by the thickness of enamel. The results in paper are helpful to improve the imaging quality of THz-CT and promote its applications especially in biomedical imaging of human bones like human tooth.
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Guo Fenglei, Zhang Mingyue, Xiao Zheng, Li Xiangjun, Liu Jianjun. Refraction problems in continuous wave THz-CT[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2015, 44(3): 969
Category: THz 技术及应用
Received: Jul. 5, 2014
Accepted: Aug. 15, 2014
Published Online: Jan. 26, 2016
The Author Email: Fenglei Guo (tidegfl@cjlu.edu.cn)
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