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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ying Zhou, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Evan Dolley, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Anjali Singhal, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Albert Cerrone, Notre Dame, IN (US);
Daniel Ruscitto, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Rajiv Sampath, West Chester, OH (US);
Martin Morra, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Krzysztof Lesnicki, Asheville, NC (US);
Paul Roth, West Chester, OH (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
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.