Key Technologies for Film Replacement

• Computed Radiography (CR) with storage

phosphor imaging plates

• Digital Detector Arrays (DDA)

CR DDA

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New Standard Proposal

EN ISO 17636-2
Radiographic testing of welds with digital detectors.
Most important parameters that are regulated by this standard:
I. Minimum score for wire type or step-hole type Image Quality
Indicators (IQI’s) in function of test technique (similar to ASME)
II. Maximum image unsharpness requirements (SRb = Basic Spatial
Resolution, determined using a duplex wire gauge)
III. Choice of tube voltage or gamma source in function of object
composition, penetrated thickness and detector
IV. Minimum normalized Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNRN) requirements
– Determine SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) and SRb
– Anti-scatter filter type & thickness
– Source-to-Detector Distance requirements
– New testing geometries
V. New compensation principles
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