| Title |
FLUKA and Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulations of a Desktop, Flat Panel Source Array for 3D Medical Imaging |
| Authors |
- T. Primidis, C.P. Welsch
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- T. Primidis, C.P. Welsch
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
- V. Soloviev
Adaptix Imaging, Didcot, United Kingdom
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| Abstract |
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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| 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 |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
IPAC2021 |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (12th) |
| Location |
Campinas, SP, Brazil |
| Date |
24-28 May 2021 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Liu Lin (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); John M. Byrd (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Regis Neuenschwander (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Renan Picoreti (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Volker R. W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-214-1 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-5490 |
| Received |
17 May 2021 |
| Accepted |
31 May 2021 |
| Issue Date |
24 August 2021 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB409 |
| Pages |
2483-2486 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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