Patent Document ID: 10001447
Application ID: 14901772
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: positioning a first calibration disk in a computed tomography (CT) scanner, the first calibration disk being made of a powder and exhibiting a known density; positioning a pellet in the CT scanner, the pellet being made of the powder, wherein the first calibration disk and the pellet are held in a CT fixture that includes a first disk fixture, a second disk fixture, and a pellet fixture, and the CT fixture is made of a material having a density lower than the densities of the pellet and the first calibration disk, and the first disk fixture includes the pellet, the second disk fixture includes the first calibration disk, and the pellet fixture is positioned around the pellet; scanning the first calibration disk and the pellet using the CT scanner to obtain one or more CT images of the pellet and the first calibration disk; and comparing a density of the pellet with the known density of the first calibration disk based on the one or more CT images.