Computed Tomography 3D Scanning of Industrial Parts

Computed tomography (CT) has come a long way since its public inception in 1972. The increasing capabilities of CT scans have definitely gone hand-in-hand with the rapid improvement of computer technology. CT scans that used to take hours are now being completed in minutes, if not seconds. This increase in capabilities has led to CT scans being used more often and in more ways than ever before. The use of CT in the industrial nondestructive testing (NDT) field is one example that has grown tremendously in the past few years, and it is also the focus of the following article. More specifically, exploring a project that used 3D CT reconstruction of a casting to measure and compare to computer-aided design (CAD) models.