Primidis, Thomas 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9509-1229, Welsch, Carsten ORCID: 0000-0001-7085-0973 and Soloviev, Vadim
(2021)
FLUKA and Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulations of a Desktop, Flat Panel Source Array for 3D Medical Imaging.
In: 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2021-5-24 - 2021-5-28, Cambinas, SP, Brazil.
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.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2022 07:37 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 20:53 |
| DOI: | 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB409 |
| Open Access URL: | https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/tupab409.pdf |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3161343 |
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