Semi-classical Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of X-ray grating interferometry.

Traditional simulation techniques such as wave optics methods and Monte Carlo (MC) particle transport cannot model both interference and inelastic scattering phenomena within one framework. Based on the rules of quantum mechanics to calculate probabilities, we propose a new semi-classical MC algorithm for efficient and simultaneous modeling of scattering and interference processes. The similarities to MC particle transport allow the implementation as a flexible c++ object oriented extension of EGSnrc-a well-established MC toolkit.

Abstract ID: 197 Monte Carlo simulations of X-ray grating interferometry based imaging systems.

Over the last couple of years the implementation of Monte Carlo (MC) methods of grating based imaging techniques is of increasing interest. Several different approaches were taken to include coherent effects into MC in order to simulate the radiation transport of the image forming procedure. These include full MC using FLUKA [1], which however are only considering monochromatic sources.