General Electric Company

Rajiv Sampath

Douglas Carl Hofer

Chiranjeev Kalra

Ying Zhou

Evan Jarrett Dolley

Edip Sevincer

Krzysztof Jacek Lesnicki

Martin Mathew Morra

Paul Gregory Roth

Albert Rosario Cerrone

Ganesh Krishnamoorthy

Anjali Singhal

Daniel Ruscitto

A system and method are provided including an inclusion module to receive a powder sample from a powder source; a computed tomography equipment; a memory for storing program instructions; an inclusion processor, coupled to the memory, and in communication with the inclusion module, and operative to execute program instructions to: receive the powder sample; execute a computed tomography (CT) scan process of the received sample to generate a first dataset including one or more images; identify inclusions in the one or more images, via a segmentation process; reconstruct, via a reconstruction process, the identified inclusion into a 3D representation; measure the identified inclusion; mark the inclusions on one or more image slices from the 3D representations; and determine whether the powder source is contaminated based on the one or more marked images. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Alloy powder cleanliness inspection using computed tomography

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Rajiv Sampath