TY - JOUR
T1 - A simulation study of a fan-beam time-of-flight fast-neutron tomography system
AU - Sun, Shifeng
AU - Ouyang, Xiaoping
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - A fast neutron imaging system, consisting of a deuterium-tritium neutron generator, an associated alpha-particle detector and an arc-shaped array of individual neutron detectors is simulated for fan-beam fast neutron tomography purpose. In this system, the associated particle and time of flight techniques are used to separate transmission neutrons from scattered neutrons by electronically collimating and time tagging the source neutrons. To evaluate factors affecting the system's spatial resolution and image quality, a series of simulations were performed with a GEANT4 based Monte Carlo program. The parameters include neutron detector resolution, system coincidence resolving time and reconstruction algorithm. The simulation results indicate that a reconstructed image resolution of about 2.1 mm can be obtained with an array of two hundred 4 mm resolution neutron detectors. With the aid of electronic collimation and time tagged based event filtering, the reconstructed image quality was significantly improved. Among iterative reconstruction algorithms tested, the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique-Total Variation algorithm showed better overall performance than others.
AB - A fast neutron imaging system, consisting of a deuterium-tritium neutron generator, an associated alpha-particle detector and an arc-shaped array of individual neutron detectors is simulated for fan-beam fast neutron tomography purpose. In this system, the associated particle and time of flight techniques are used to separate transmission neutrons from scattered neutrons by electronically collimating and time tagging the source neutrons. To evaluate factors affecting the system's spatial resolution and image quality, a series of simulations were performed with a GEANT4 based Monte Carlo program. The parameters include neutron detector resolution, system coincidence resolving time and reconstruction algorithm. The simulation results indicate that a reconstructed image resolution of about 2.1 mm can be obtained with an array of two hundred 4 mm resolution neutron detectors. With the aid of electronic collimation and time tagged based event filtering, the reconstructed image quality was significantly improved. Among iterative reconstruction algorithms tested, the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique-Total Variation algorithm showed better overall performance than others.
KW - Fast neutron tomography
KW - GEANT4
KW - Image reconstruction
KW - Time of flight
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85064601851
U2 - 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.04.017
DO - 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.04.017
M3 - 文章
C2 - 31029934
AN - SCOPUS:85064601851
SN - 0969-8043
VL - 149
SP - 52
EP - 59
JO - Applied Radiation and Isotopes
JF - Applied Radiation and Isotopes
ER -