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US 2006/0130587 A1Published application
Methods and system for ultrasound inspection
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsPatrick Howard, Richard Klaassen
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for fabricating a component is provided. The method includes receiving an ultrasound image of the component, selecting a subimage that includes a first surface of the component and an inspection area of the component, combining a filtered subimage with the selected subimage, and outputting the combined image to at least one of a display and an analyzer.
Claims20
A method of fabricating a component, said method comprising:
- receiving an ultrasound image of the component;
- selecting a subimage that includes a first surface of the component and an inspection area of the component;
- combining a filtered subimage with the selected subimage;
- and
- outputting the combined image to at least one of a display and an analyzer.
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An ultrasound inspection system comprising:
- a pulse echo transducer;
- and
- a processor operationally coupled to said transducer for reducing noise in an echo received from a near surface inspection area of a component, said processor programmed to:
- extract an A-scan data set from a B-scan image;
- locate a half-max point of a front surface echo in the A-scan data set;
- and
- locate the front surface of the component using a first zero crossing in a derivative of the A-scan data set.
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An ultrasound inspection system comprising:
- a pulse echo transducer;
- and
- a processor operationally coupled to said transducer, said processor programmed to:
- control said pulse echo transducer during a scan of a component;
- and
- receive a plurality of B-scan images from the scan.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.