Apparatus and method for identification and recognition of an item with ultrasonic patterns from item subsurface micro-features
Abstract
The present invention is a means and method for identification and recognition of an item by ultrasonic imaging of material microfeatures and/or macrofeatures within the bulk volume of a material. The invention is based upon ultrasonic interrogation and imaging of material microfeatures within the body of material by accepting only reflected ultrasonic energy from a preselected plane or volume within the material. An initial interrogation produces an identification reference. Subsequent new scans are statistically compared to the identification reference for making a match/non-match decision. 15 figs.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 106709
- Patent Number(s):
- 5454045
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-228,477
- Assignee:
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Richland, WA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 26 Sep 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ULTRASONIC WAVES; IMAGES; DECISION MAKING; STATISTICS; SECURITY
Citation Formats
Perkins, R W, Fuller, J L, Doctor, S R, Good, M S, Heasler, P G, Skorpik, J R, and Hansen, N H. Apparatus and method for identification and recognition of an item with ultrasonic patterns from item subsurface micro-features. United States: N. p., 1995.
Web.
Perkins, R W, Fuller, J L, Doctor, S R, Good, M S, Heasler, P G, Skorpik, J R, & Hansen, N H. Apparatus and method for identification and recognition of an item with ultrasonic patterns from item subsurface micro-features. United States.
Perkins, R W, Fuller, J L, Doctor, S R, Good, M S, Heasler, P G, Skorpik, J R, and Hansen, N H. Tue .
"Apparatus and method for identification and recognition of an item with ultrasonic patterns from item subsurface micro-features". United States.
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title = {Apparatus and method for identification and recognition of an item with ultrasonic patterns from item subsurface micro-features},
author = {Perkins, R W and Fuller, J L and Doctor, S R and Good, M S and Heasler, P G and Skorpik, J R and Hansen, N H},
abstractNote = {The present invention is a means and method for identification and recognition of an item by ultrasonic imaging of material microfeatures and/or macrofeatures within the bulk volume of a material. The invention is based upon ultrasonic interrogation and imaging of material microfeatures within the body of material by accepting only reflected ultrasonic energy from a preselected plane or volume within the material. An initial interrogation produces an identification reference. Subsequent new scans are statistically compared to the identification reference for making a match/non-match decision. 15 figs.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
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volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {1995},
month = {9}
}
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