[Gate-users] Transmission tomography

[Javier Serrano]

> Richard Taschereau wrote:
> While it is technically possible to simulate an x-ray CT, the amount of photons you would need is prohibitive.

Yes, I think so too. I did try to simulate this with Geant4 some time
ago and I found this problem.

> Franca Cassol-Brunner wrote:
> this will be available in the next Gate release, where a CT system will be
> added.

This is very interesting for me, especially if the next release is
coming soon. I would like to simulate a CT system with Gate even with
a limited number of photons or projections. I will keep waiting for
the next release.

Thank you all.
Greetings, Javi.





2008/5/22 Franca Cassol-Brunner <cassol at cppm.in2p3.fr>:
> Javier Serrano wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to use Gate to simulate an x-ray scanner with an
>> external cone-beam source?
>
> Hello Javier,
>
> this will be available in the next Gate release, where a CT system will be
> added. With the present release you can simulate the cone beam source but
> there is no adapted output for the CT images.
>
> Don't hesitate to contact me directly to get more details.
>
> Cheers
>
> Franca
>
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