Interior Surface Unwrapping System of Volume CT Data

Computed Tomography (CT) techniques are widely used in Non Destructive Examination (NDE) and Medical Imaging field for industrial inspection and medical diagnosis. While 3D rendering the CT data can be helpful in above mentioned applications, it is inefficient when extensive visual observation of a large number of internal irregularities of potential anomalies is required. This paper proposed a 2D interior surface unwrapping system based on unfolding methods in medical imaging field. A graphical user interface (GUI) is implemented to extract the CT skeleton structure for visualization and to allow efficient navigation of data and generation of 2D interior surface unwrapping representation. The program was tested with real world industrial volume CT data and generated satisfactory results.