Applications of Image Reconstruction in NDE

The nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of materials often involves the solution of an inverse problem. It is shown that image reconstruction techniques lead to the direct solution of the 3-D inverse problem when radiographic measurements are made. In particular, it is suggested that the convolve-and-backproject solution to the 3-D divergent ray geometry problem should be useful for NDE. There is also a discussion of the accept-reject criteria appropriate for various classes of defects