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The Use Of Gamma-Ray Coputed Tomography

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A single gamma-ray computed tomography (CT) technique, which is a part of unique dual-source gamma-ray computed tomography (DSCT) scanner, was used in this study. This DSCT was originally developed in-house and designed by Varma [49] and the team of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to allow researchers to image and quantify the internal distributions of two- or three-phase flow, which is encountered in different multiphase reactors or flow systems at different operating conditions in a noninvasive way. This technique has been applied successfully to different multiphase flow systems in our laboratory (mReal) at the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). Examples …show more content…

These dimensions of collimators for the Cs-137 source and their detectors were designed to provide enough open area to acquire counts (photons) with sufficient statistics (high signal-to-noise ratio) on the selected frequency and sampling rate [59–61]. Both gamma-ray sources and their arrays of the detectors were mounted and installed on a motorized rotatable circular plate. This circular plate was attached to a lift unit (square plate), which allows for the whole system (circular plate, gamma-sources, and their detectors) to perform CT scans in different selected axial planes automatically. Together the circular and square plates have a central opening space, which is dedicated to the objects to be examined. During the scanning of the investigated bubble column that was well balanced and centered inside the circular opening area of the CT technique, the Cs-137 source and its detectors were rotated around the column by rotating the circular plate in a stepwise movement (approximately 1.83° for each step) that was controlled by utilizing a programmed automated step motor. For a given step of rotation (each source view), the array of the Cs-137 source detectors was moved automatically 21 times in an arc of 0.13°/step that was achieved by another independent automated

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