Geant4 implementation of inter-atomic interference effect in small-angle coherent X-ray scattering for materials of medical interest.
Phys Med
; 51: 64-70, 2018 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
An extension to Geant4 Monte Carlo code was developed to take into account inter-atomic (molecular) interference effects in X-ray coherent scattering. Based on our previous works, the developed code introduces a set of form factors including interference effects for a selected variety of amorphous materials useful for medical applications, namely various tissues and plastics used to build phantoms. The code is easily upgradable in order to include new materials and offers the possibility to model a generic tissue as a combination of a set of four basic components. A dedicated Geant4 application for the simulation of X-ray diffraction experiments was created to validate the proposed upgrade of Rayleigh scattering model. A preliminary validation of the code obtained through a comparison with EGS4 and an experiment is presented, showing a satisfactory agreement.
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Difração de Raios X
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Método de Monte Carlo
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Espalhamento a Baixo Ângulo
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
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En
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2018
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Article