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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2010
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Waheed A. Abbasi, Murrysville, PA (US);
Chris Vierck, Oviedo, FL (US);
Peter Faltin, Aachen, DE;
Daniel S. Morgan, White Oak, PA (US);
Larry C. Himes, Greensburg, PA (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Michael J. Metala, Murrysville, PA (US);
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Waheed A. Abbasi, Murrysville, PA (US);
Chris Vierck, Oviedo, FL (US);
Peter Faltin, Aachen, DE;
Daniel S. Morgan, White Oak, PA (US);
Larry C. Himes, Greensburg, PA (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Michael J. Metala, Murrysville, PA (US);
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for three-dimensional (3D) visualization and analysis for automatic non-destructive examination of a rotor bore using ultrasound. Data is acquired by scanning the rotor bore with an ultrasound pulser/transducer producing a plurality of one-dimensional ultrasound scans, each scan having a plurality of sample points. Each sample point is associated with a voxel of a regular 3D grid having a plurality of voxels. A Gaussian kernel is associated with each sample point and a value for a particular voxel is determined based on a weighted sum of sample points whose kernels cover the particular voxel. The values for the other voxels of the regular 3D grid are determined similarly. A 3D visualization of the rotor bore can be displayed to a user.