HADES, A Code for Simulating a Variety of Radiographic Techniques

Conference · Thu Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462780· OSTI ID:15014531

Aufderheide, M B; Henderson, G; von Wittenau, A; Slone, D M; Barty, A

It is often useful to simulate radiographic images in order to optimize imaging trade-offs and to test tomographic techniques. HADES is a code that simulates radiography using ray tracing techniques. Although originally developed to simulate X-Ray transmission radiography, HADES has grown to simulate neutron radiography over a wide range of energy, proton radiography in the 1 MeV to 100 GeV range, and recently phase contrast radiography using X-Rays in the keV energy range. HADES can simulate parallel-ray or cone-beam radiography through a variety of mesh types, as well as through collections of geometric objects. HADES was originally developed for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) applications, but could be a useful tool for simulation of portal imaging, proton therapy imaging, and synchrotron studies of tissue. In this paper we describe HADES' current capabilities and discuss plans for a major revision of the code.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 15014531
• Report Number(s): UCRL-PROC-207617; TRN: US0800859
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 4; Conference: Presented at: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer's 2004 Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, Oct 19 - Oct 22, 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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