Visualization of 3D gas density distribution using optical tomography

This paper presents a visualization of a 3D gas density distribution, which arose from a safety analysis of a high-temperature gas cooler reactor. The density distribution is reconstructed from holographic interferograms using the techniques of computed tomography. In the reconstruction process, a new reduced bandlimit technique is used in the filtered-backprojection algorithm to deal with the truncated projection data with noise. The results reconstructed from 12 view directions are verified qualitatively by an oxygen molarity detector, It shows that the filtered-backprojection algorithm, integrated with the reduced bandlimit technique, can reconstruct the 3D density distribution from the truncated and noisy projections, and that holographic interferometry is a non-disturbing and powerful tool in flow-visualization for 3D gas flows. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.