Optical coherence tomography (OCT) applications in the field of non-destructive testing (NDT) have grown immensely over the past few years. In order to pave the ground for a new OCT for NDT community we are pleased to announce the First International Symposium on OCT4NDT! The symposium is intended as a get-together for people working in this field and aims at initiating new ideas and projects. . For more information please click Here .

Mechanical material testing combined with optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows for the first time the immediate detection of inner structural changes along with a qualitative observation of the local strain distribution in surface near bulk regions of semitransparent and translucent specimens. In addition to a 3D full field strain analysis (FFSA) system based on digital image correlation (DIC), a customized spectral domain OCT system operating at 1550 nm was applied for investigation. Exemplified by tensile testing of elastomer particle filled polypropylene specimens, local dissimilarity evaluation of the OCT images was performed. The results show the high potential of OCT to ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive analysis technique allowing fast and high-quality cross-sectional imaging of scattering media. OCT is based on the physical phenomenon of low coherence interferometry and is thus well suited to image layered structures. In this paper, high-speed spectral domain OCT was used for the characterization of pharmaceutical tablet coatings, sampled at different stages of an industrial drum spray coating process, comprising tablets with a coating thickness ranging from uncoated to a target coating thickness of about 70 μm. In addition to the OCT investigation of layer thickness and homogeneity, tablet weight gain and tablet diameters ...