Radiological Methods

W. C. Röntgen

The division's major tasks comprise the development, application and validation of non-destructive techniques. It contributes to the improvement of reliability and performance of materials and components for safe operation of products and industrial plants in all branches.

The division is engaged in crime prevention and waste inspection.

Activities

• Develpoment and validation of modern stationary and mobile radiographic methods by X-ray, gamma, electron and neutron radiation and its standardisation
• Three-dimensional procedures and reconstruction algorithms for specific radiological tasks
• Modelling and simulation of non-destructive tests and their reliability
• Development of validation procedures for NDT
• X-ray diffraction texture and phase topography for non-destructive characterization of non-metallic materials
• Application of X-ray refraction topography and computed tomography for investigations of microm-structures and damage analysis
• Develpoment of reference materials and standards for image reproduction in NDT and information technology
• Accreditation, expertise, reference materials and catalogues
• Improvement of reliability in modern NDT by digital signal processing
• Type approval of X- and gamma equipment
• Editorial board NDE of the journal Materialprüfung/materials testing
• Information services - Materials Technology and NDT

Working groups

• Radiation Methods and Radiation Protection
• X-Ray Scattering Topography
• Reliability of Non-destructive Diagnostic Systems
• Computed Tomography
• Digital Radiology and Image Analysis
• Modelling and Reconstruction in Radiology

• Contact

Instruments and methods of investigation

• Equipment for investigation with X-ray and gamma radiation at a large energy scale (5keV-12keV)
• Equipment for digital radiology with imaging plates (computed radiography), flat panel detectors, line cameras and mechanised radiological systems
• X-ray fine structure equipment for crystallographic scanning topography
• Synchroton applications at BAMline for time and energy resolved characterization of materials
• Electron spin resonance imaging system
• NDT specific image processing systems and LINUX cluster for numeric simulations
• High resolution X-ray film digitisation
• Colour metrology, high resolution film exposure and standard laser printer

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