Open AccessXDesign : an open‐source software package for designing X‐ray imaging phantoms and experiments
Author(s) -
Ching Daniel J.,
Gürsoy Dogˇa
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of synchrotron radiation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 99
ISSN - 1600-5775
DOI - 10.1107/s1600577517001928
Subject(s) - software , computer science , iterative reconstruction , tomography , data acquisition , software package , open source software , computed tomography , medical physics , computational science , computer vision , computer graphics (images) , optics , physics , radiology , medicine , programming language , operating system
The development of new methods or utilization of current X‐ray computed tomography methods is impeded by the substantial amount of expertise required to design an X‐ray computed tomography experiment from beginning to end. In an attempt to make material models, data acquisition schemes and reconstruction algorithms more accessible to researchers lacking expertise in some of these areas, a software package is described here which can generate complex simulated phantoms and quantitatively evaluate new or existing data acquisition schemes and image reconstruction algorithms for targeted applications.