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Burning Issues in Tomography Analysis
March/April 2008 (vol. 10 no. 2)
pp. 78-81
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Kyungmin Ham, Heath A. Barnett, Leslie G. Butler, "Burning Issues in Tomography Analysis," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 78-81, March/April, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2008.51,
author = {Kyungmin Ham and Heath A. Barnett and Leslie G. Butler},
title = {Burning Issues in Tomography Analysis},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {10},
number = {2},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2008},
pages = {78-81},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.51},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - Computing in Science and Engineering
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A1 - Heath A. Barnett,
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KW - polymers
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KW - chemical visualization
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KW - synchrotron X-ray tomography
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Kyungmin Ham, Louisiana State University
Heath A. Barnett, Louisiana State University
Leslie G. Butler, Louisiana State University
Polystyrene and other polymers can become safer when blended with flame retardants such as Saytex BT-93. In this installment, the authors discuss how to assess such blending's effectiveness using 3D multispectral imaging methods, such as synchrotron X-ray tomography.

1. A. Anthony et al., "Pulsed 81Br Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy of Brominated Flame Retardants and Associated Polymer Blends," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 10, no. 5, 1998, pp. 1291–1300.
2. K. Ham et al., "Three-Dimensional Chemical Analysis with Synchrotron Tomography at Multiple X-ray Energies: Brominated Aromatic Flame Retardant and Antimony Oxide in Polystyrene," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 16, 2004, pp. 4032–4042.
3. K. Ham and L.G. Butler, "Algorithms for three-Dimensional Chemical Analysis via Multi-Energy Synchrotron X-ray Tomography," Nuclear Instruments &Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, vol. 262, no. 1, 2007, pp. 117–127.
4. H.A. Barnett, K. Ham, and L.G. Butler, "Synchrotron X-ray tomography for 3D Chemical Diffusion Measurement of a Flame Retardant in Polystyrene," Nuclear Instruments &Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 582, no. 1, 2007, pp. 202–204.
5. A. Donev et al., "Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings using Ellipsoids Science, vol. 303, no. 5660, 2004, pp. 990–993.

Index Terms:
polymers, polystyrene, chemical visualization, polymer blending, synchrotron X-ray tomography
Citation:
Kyungmin Ham, Heath A. Barnett, Leslie G. Butler, "Burning Issues in Tomography Analysis," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 78-81, March-April 2008, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2008.51
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