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Cosmic ray muon computed tomography ({\mu}CT) is a new imaging modality with unique characteristics that could be particularly important for diverse applications including nuclear nonproliferation, spent nuclear fuel monitoring, cargo…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-17 Zhengzhi Liu , Stylianos Chatzidakis , John M. Scaglione , Can Liao , Haori Yang , Jason P. Hayward

Synthesizing realistic images involves computing high-dimensional light-transport integrals. In practice, these integrals are numerically estimated via Monte Carlo integration. The error of this estimation manifests itself as conspicuous…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vassillen Chizhov , Iliyan Georgiev , Karol Myszkowski , Gurprit Singh

To develop a machine learning-based framework for accurately modeling the anode heel effect in Monte Carlo simulations of X-ray imaging systems, enabling realistic beam intensity profiles with minimal experimental calibration. Multiple…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Hussein Harb , Didier Benoit , Axel Rannou , Chi-Hieu Pham , Valentin Tissot , Bahaa Nasr , Julien Bert

Dual-energy computed tomography (CT) is to reconstruct images of an object from two projection datasets generated from two distinct x-ray source energy spectra. It can provide more accurate attenuation quantification than conventional CT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Wenxiang Cong , Daniel Harrison , Yan Xi , Ge Wang

For single source helical Computed Tomography (CT), both Filtered-Back Projection (FBP) and statistical iterative reconstruction have been investigated. However for dual source CT with flying focal spot (DS-FFS CT), statistical iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Xiao Wang , Robert D. MacDougall , Peng Chen , Charles A. Bouman , Simon K. Warfield

Recent advances in differentiable rendering have enabled high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multi-view images. Most methods rely on simple rendering algorithms: pre-filtered direct lighting or learned representations of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Jon Hasselgren , Nikolai Hofmann , Jacob Munkberg

For several decades now, wide-field coded mask cameras have been used with success to localise Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In these instruments, the event count rate is dominated by the photon background due to their large field of view and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Godet , P. Sizun , D. Barret , P. Mandrou , B. Cordier , S. Schanne , N. Remoue

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. For obtaining reliable simulation results in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Ayako Ishii , Naofumi Ohnishi , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Shoichi Yamada

Significance: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are the gold-standard for modeling light-tissue interactions due to their accuracy. Mesh-based MC (MMC) offers enhanced precision for complex tissue structures using tetrahedral mesh models. Despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

Purpose: Anthropomorphic phantoms can be used in radiotherapy to confirm dose distributions. In this work, a prototype phantom with a deformable chest wall was created based on real human. Methods: A technique similar to 3-dimensional…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Maria Akiki , Fadi Rouphael , Mazen Moussallem

Computed Tomography (CT) scans provide detailed and accurate information of internal structures in the body. They are constructed by sending x-rays through the body from different directions and combining this information into a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Firas Khader , Gustav Müller-Franzes , Tianyu Han , Sven Nebelung , Christiane Kuhl , Johannes Stegmaier , Daniel Truhn

We demonstrate the importance and utility of Monte Carlo simulation of single-photon detectors. Devising an optimal simulation is strongly influenced by the particular application because of the complexity of modern, avalanche-diode-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Mario Stipčević , Daniel J. Gauthier

An iterative algorithm based on Monte Carlo method is used to model thin film growth of AB type molecule and crystallization. Primarly, PVD technique is investigated since it is one of the most preferred on thin film growth processes. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-17 İzzet Paruğ Duru , Şahin Aktaş

Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) imaging systems with the ability in detection of millimeter-sized tumors were developed in recent years. And some of them have been well used in clinical applications. In consideration of biopsy…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Xiao-Yue Gu , Wei Zhou , Lin Li , Peng-Fei Yin , Lei-Min Shang , Ming-Kai Yun , Zhen-Rui Lu , Xian-Chao Huang , Long Wei

Fourier ptychography has attracted a wide range of focus for its ability of large space-bandwidth-produce, and quantative phase measurement. It is a typical computational imaging technique which refers to optimizing both the imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Guocheng Zhou , Shaohui Zhang , Yao Hu , Lei Cao , Yong Huang , Qun Hao

Physically-based renderings contain Monte-Carlo noise, with variance that increases as the number of rays per pixel decreases. This noise, while zero-mean for good modern renderers, can have heavy tails (most notably, for scenes containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Vaibhav Vavilala , Rahul Vasanth , David Forsyth

Traditional cosmic ray simulations make use of the Montecarlo method in a very naive way to randomise energy and direction for each simulated particle. The flux of cosmic rays is modelled as a rain coming from a plane above the object of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-19 David Díez Ibáñez , Luis Obis Aparicio

McXtrace is an established Monte Carlo based ray-tracing tool to simulate synchrotron beamlines and X-ray laboratory instruments. This work explains and demonstrates the new capability of GPU-accelerated McXtrace ray-tracing simulations.…

The validation, verification, and uncertainty quantification of computationally expensive theoretical models of quantum many-body systems require the construction of fast and accurate emulators. In this work, we develop emulators for…

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