Wadeson, Nicola and Morton, Edward and Lionheart, William (2010) Scatter in an uncollimated x-ray CT machine based on a Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation. In: SPIE Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging, 15-18 February 2010, San Diego, USA.
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Abstract
A high-speed motionless-gantry x-ray CT machine has been designed to allow for 3D images to be collected in real time. By using multiple, switched x-ray sources and fixed detector rings, the time consuming mechanical rotation of conventional CT machines can be removed. However, the nature of this design limits the possibility of detector collimation since each detector must now be able to record the energy of x-ray beams from a number of different directions. The lack of collimation has implications in the reconstructed image due to an increase in the number of scattered photons recorded. A Monte Carlo computer simulation of the x-ray machine has been developed, using the Geant4 software toolkit, to analyse the behaviour of both Rayleigh and Compton scattered photons when considering airport baggage and medical applications. Four different scattering objects were analysed based on 50kVp, 100kVp and 150kVp spectra for a tungsten target. Two suitcase objects, a body and a brain phantom were chosen as objects typical of airport baggage and medical CT. The results indicate that the level of scatter is negligible for a typical airport baggage application, since the majority of space in a suitcase consists of clothing, which has a low density. Scatter contributes to less than 1% of the image in the 100kVp and 150kVp instances. However, due to the large amounts of water found in the human body, the level of scatter in the medical instances are significantly higher, reaching 37% when the body phantom is analysed at 50kVp.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Compton scatter, Rayleigh scatter, Geant4, Monte-Carlo simulation, x-ray CT, RTT |
| Subjects: | MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 78 Optics, electromagnetic theory |
| Depositing User: | Miss Nicola Wadeson |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2017 14:12 |
| URI: | https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/1500 |
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