AdvancedPhotonSource / xdesign

Tools for designing x-ray phantoms and experiments.
https://xdesign.readthedocs.io
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Arbitrary illumination fields #74

Open carterbox opened 4 years ago

carterbox commented 4 years ago

Currently, XDesign only supports illuminations based on probes represented by parallel lines. However this means that cone beam or other focused beam systems cannot be simulated. Instead I propose that illuminations are represented as polygonal meshes where each element of the mesh represents the photons collected by one detector element. In this way, the modeling of a cone beam could be a mesh of triangles which all share a single point.