Scatter Correction in Cone Beam CT for Metal Additive Manufacturing Components

This paper provides an x-ray scatter correction method for cone beam computed tomography (CT) to reduce cupping artifacts and image inhomogeneity of metal additive manufacturing (AM) components. Firstly, projections in 360° were obtained by a cone beam CT system. Secondly, the corresponding virtual CT system was built on Geant4 to obtain scatter photons. Different from previous studies, the geometry of the metal AM component was set by importing a CAD model of the component into Geant4, which can not only assure the accuracy of geometry but also simplify the definition of the geometry. Finally, the corresponding scatter photons were subtracted from the experimental projections in 360° to obtain corrected projections. Corrected reconstruction images were acquired via an FDK algorithm. In the corrected images, the average sum of squares of deviation of regions of interest was about 79.5% of that in the uncorrected images. Corrected images showed that cupping-shaped artifacts and image inhomogeneity were effectively reduced.

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