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In the community of x‐ray imaging, there is a multitude of tools and applications that are used in scientific practice. Many of these tools are proprietary and can only be used within a certain lab. Often the same algorithm is implemented multiple times by different groups in order to enable comparison. In an effort to tackle this problem, the authors created CONRAD, a software framework that provides many of the tools that are required to simulate basic processes in x‐ray imaging and perform image reconstruction with consideration of nonlinear physical effects.

CONRAD is a Java‐based state‐of‐the‐art software platform with extensive documentation. It is based on platform‐independent technologies. Special libraries offer access to hardware acceleration such as OpenCL. There is an easy‐to‐use interface for parallel processing. The software package includes different simulation tools that are …