Images of soft materials: a 3D visualization of interior of the sample in terms of attenuation coefficient

Images of soft materials are obtained using image intensifier based X-ray s ystem (Rao et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 437 (1999) 141). The interior o f the soft material is visualized using the novel software in order to know the distribution of attenuation coefficient in terms of density. The novel software is based mainly on graphical library and applicable to several op erating systems without any change. It can be applied to several applicatio ns starting from biomedical to industries, for example, quality control. Th e results for walnut and brew tooth are presented as a set of images from t he internal parts of the sample. A description of the principal parameters required for tomographic visualization is given and some results based on t his technique are reported and discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. Al l rights reserved.