Journal
APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 353-358Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.024
Keywords
Beam hardening; Energy shift; Neutron transmission; Attenuation coefficient; MCNP simulation
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In neutron imaging, the beam-hardening effect has a significant effect on quantitative and qualitative image interpretation. This study aims to propose a linearization method for beam-hardening correction. The proposed method is based on a new analytical approach establishing the attenuation coefficient as a function of neutron energy. Spectrum energy shift due to beam hardening is studied on the basis of Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) simulated data and the analytical data. Good agreement between MCNP and analytical values has been found. Indeed, the beam-hardening effect is well supported in the proposed method. A correction procedure is developed to correct the errors of beam-hardening effect in neutron transmission, and therefore for projection data correction. The effectiveness of this procedure is determined by its application in correcting reconstructed images. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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