A new approach to the calculation of the x‐ray spectrum emerging from an x‐ray tube is
proposed. Theoretical results for the bremsstrahlung cross section appearing in the literature …

A new x‐ray source, the model S700 Axxent™ X‐Ray Source (Source), has been developed
by Xoft Inc. for electronic brachytherapy. Unlike brachytherapy sources containing …

With the advent of powerful computers and parallel processing including Grid technology,
the use of Monte Carlo (MC) techniques for radiation transport simulation has become the …

The purpose of this study was to present a method for generating x‐ray source models for
performing Monte Carlo (MC) radiation dosimetry simulations of multidetector row CT …

This article describes an efficiency study of directional bremsstrahlung splitting (DBS) for x‐
ray tube modeling. DBS is shown to be up to five or six orders of magnitude more efficient at …

An x-ray computed tomography (CT) simulator based on the Monte Carlo N-particle
radiation transport computer code (MCNP4C) was developed for simulation of both fan-and …

Purpose To assess the potential of a joint dual‐energy computerized tomography (CT)
reconstruction process (statistical image reconstruction method built on a basis vector model …

Quantitative imaging based on dual energy computed tomography (DECT) is useful in both
medical and industrial areas. However, the dependence of the attenuation coefficient on X …

A PC Program for x ray Monte Carlo (PCXMC) has been used to calculate organ doses in
patient dosimetry and for the exposure assessment in epidemiological studies of radiogenic …

Background: Different computational methods have been used for the prediction of X-ray
spectra and beam quality in diagnostic radiology. The purpose of this study was to compare …