Estimation of Moisture Content in Edible Pulses by the Application of Computerized Tomography

Moisture content is an important component in food products. Proper information about the moisture quantity in the grains is a valuable parameter to evaluate the quality and stability of the food products. Now a days Tomographic image processing plays an important role to monitor and ensure the quality of food products [1]. Present work focuses on use of Computerized tomography for the estimation of moisture content in pulses. Three different types of pulses (Arhar, Masoor, and Urad) are scanned by a micro X-ray CT scanner installed at IIT Kanpur. Thease experiments are carried out with 800 projection views and 120 kV applied voltage to Xray source. The 2-d detector system consists of photodiodes which generate 1024 data rays [2-3]. Avizo sofware which uses FDK (Feldkamp-Davis-Kress) alogorithm has been used here to reconstruct the CT images [45].