Livermore tomography tools: Accurate, fast, and flexible software for tomographic science

Champley, Kyle M.; Willey, Trevor M.; Kim, Hyojin; Bond, Karina; Glenn, Steven M.; Smith, Jerel A.; Kallman, Jeffrey S.; Brown, William D.; Seetho, Isaac M.; Keene, Lionel; Azevedo, Stephen G.; McMichael, Larry D.; Overturf, George; Martz, Harry E.

doi:10.1016/j.ndteint.2021.102595

Livermore tomography tools: Accurate, fast, and flexible software for tomographic science

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2022 · NDT & E International

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2021.102595· OSTI ID:1808751

Champley, Kyle M. ^[1]; Willey, Trevor M. ^[1]; Kim, Hyojin ^[1]; Bond, Karina ^[1]; Glenn, Steven M. ^[1]; ^[1]; Kallman, Jeffrey S. ^[1]; Brown, William D. ^[1]; Seetho, Isaac M. ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]; McMichael, Larry D. ^[1]; Overturf, George ^[1]; Martz, Harry E. ^[1]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Livermore Tomography Tools (LTT) is a customizable scientific software package that enables a broad range of research and development efforts into computed tomography (CT). Here, it was developed to process x-ray and neutron CT data accurately and rapidly from raw detector counts to reconstructed volumes with the flexibility to handle many special cases. LTT fulfills long-term CT software goals to provide quantitatively accurate results reported in physical units (e.g., mm^-1 or cm^-1) while exploiting all available computational advantages to maximize speed. Written in C/C++ with support for multiple CPUs and GPUs, LTT runs on many computing platforms (Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac; laptops to supercomputers). As a result, LTT can:process data acquired from various custom-built and commercially available CT scanners, model and simulate x-ray and neutron interactions to encourage algorithm prototyping, and allow for rapid insertion of the latest algorithms.We describe LTT’s software architecture, user interfaces, and its 88 algorithms (as of this writing) for pre-processing, reconstruction, post-processing, and simulation that support many scanner geometries (parallel-, fan-, cone-beam, and custom). Several applications are presented that illustrate LTT’s accuracy, speed, and flexibility relative to other solutions.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1808751

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1839865

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-822719; LLNL-JRNL-825437; 1033743

Journal Information:: NDT & E International, Journal Name: NDT & E International Vol. 126; ISSN 0963-8695

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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