Component Manual for the Xray-Tracing Package McXtrace, version 3.8.6

7.1  The Absorption_sample McXtrace Component

Sample component with absorbing materials.

Identification

Description

A sample component consisting of a volume of one material and volume of another material inside. This is useful as a phantom for simulating tomography experiments. The inner material can be left unset (all 0), to only have one volume.

Sample shape may be a cylinder, a sphere, a box or any other shape

box/plate:       xwidth x yheight x zdepth
cylinder:        radius x yheight
sphere:          radius (yheight=0)
any shape:       geometry=OFF/PLY file

Example: Absorption_sample( material_datafile_o=”Mn.txt”, xwidth_o = 0.5, yheight_o = 0.5, zdepth_o = 0.0001, rho_o=7.15 )

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

material_datafile_i

str

Name of file containing material data for inclusion.

””

material_datafile_o

str

Name of file containing material data for outer volume.

””

radius_o

m

Radius of ”outer” enclosing material cylinder (0)

0

xwidth_o

m

Width of ”outer” enclosing material box (yheight)

0

yheight_o

m

Height of ”outer enclosing material box (1)

1

zdepth_o

m

Thickness of outer enclosing material box (yheight)

0

radius_i

m

Radius of ”inner” enclosed material cylinder (0)

0

xwidth_i

m

Width of ”inner” enclosed material box (yheight)

0

yheight_i

m

Height of ”inner enclosed material (1)

0.0

zdepth_i

m

Thickness of inner enclosed material box (yheight)

0

x_i

m

Center x-coordinate of ”inner” object

0

y_i

m

Center y-coordinate of ”inner” object

0

z_i

m

Center z-coordinate of ”inner” object

0

rho_i

g/cm\(^{3}\)

density of the enclosed material

0

rho_o

g/cm\(^{3}\)

density of the enclosing material

0

geometry_i

str

Name of an inner Object File Format (OFF) or PLY file for complex geometry. The OFF/PLY file may be generated from XYZ coordinates using qhull/powercrust [str]

””

geometry_o

str

Name of the outer Object File Format (OFF) or PLY file for complex geometry. The OFF/PLY file may be generated from XYZ coordinates using qhull/powercrust

””

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An absorption phantom

This component models an absorption phantom with a single inclusion in surrounding material. It is intended use is for tomographic imaging simulations.