Thermo Fisher Scientific › Electron Microscopy › Electron Microscopes › 3D Visualization, Analysis and EM Software › Use Case Gallery
Thermo Fisher Scientific › Electron Microscopy › Electron Microscopes › 3D Visualization, Analysis and EM Software › Use Case Gallery
Fractures are crucial for unconventional hydrocarbon exploitation, but it is difficult to accurately observe the 3D spatial distribution characteristics of fractures. Microtomography (micro-CT) technology makes it possible to observe the 3D structures of fractures at micro-scale. In this study, micron-CT scanning is conducted on multiple mud-shale samples of source rocks in the Permian Lucaogou Formation, Junggar Basin. The Avizo software is applied to process and segment the micron-CT images, so as to obtain the 3D fracture structure model inside rock core. Therefore, the independently-developed CTSTA program is adopted to quantitatively describe the micro-fractures inside rock core, including fracture dimension, extension direction and extension scale.
The first step is to use the Avizo software package Fire version to read 2008 grayscale images of the sample. (…) To identify cracks from the greyscale images is a prerequisite of the analysis of cracks. A suitable threshold value should be carefully selected by using the threshold tool in Avizo and then the binary label-data are exported for each sample. (…) We focus on the analysis of cracks in this study, thus it is necessary to remove the isolated small pores by using the functionality of ‘removing islands’ in Avizo. (…)
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.