Precisely Reconstruct Porous Media Model Based on Synchrotron Radiation Slice Images

In this paper a method for precisely reconstructing porous media three-dimensional model based on slice images is proposed. It first processes the original slice images, then uses 3D seed filling algorithm to find all pores based on the constructed spatial data, finally uses the modified marching cubes algorithm based on bounding box technology to render material skeletons and pores. Associating with the porous media flow specific application, a novel invalid pore removing method is proposed. The final reconstructed model shows that our method can precisely reconstruct the pore network and recover the pore shape. It also can identify the pores which meet spatial scale threshold conditions. Comparison of running time between the original marching cubes algorithm and the modified marching cubes algorithm is given. It shows that due to the bounding box technology the running time of modified marching cubes algorithm is shorten greatly when the pores are far away from each other.