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| TUPAB409 | FLUKA and Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulations of a Desktop, Flat Panel Source Array for 3D Medical Imaging | 2483 |
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Funding: Funded by the Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and Environment CDT from the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Science and Technology Facilities Council, reference ID ST/R002142/1 Digital tomosynthesis (DT) is a 3D imaging modality with a lower cost and lower dose than computed tomography. A DT system made of a flat panel array with 45 X-ray sources, but compact enough to fit on the desktop is near market realisation by the company Adaptix Ltd. This work presents a framework of FLUKA and Geant4 Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of the Adaptix system including the X-ray beam generation and the final image quality. The results show that MC methods offer an insight into the performance details of such an innovative device at different levels between the X-ray emitter array and the detector. As such, a large portion of the design and optimisation of such novel X-ray imaging systems can be done with a single toolkit. Finally, the modularity of the approach allows other tools to be imported at various steps within the framework and thus provide answers to questions that cannot be addressed by general-purpose MC codes. |
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| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB409 | |
| About • | paper received ※ 17 May 2021 paper accepted ※ 31 May 2021 issue date ※ 24 August 2021 | |
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