XDesign is an open-source Python package for generating configurable x-ray imaging phantoms, simulating data acquisition, and benchmarking x-ray tomographic image reconstruction.

• Assist faster development of new generation tomographic reconstruction methods
• Allow quantitative comparison of different reconstruction methods
• Create a framework for designing x-ray imaging experiments

• Customizable 2D phantoms constructed from circles and convex polygons
• Quantitative reconstruction quality and probe coverage metrics
• Attenuation interactions with X-ray probes of uniform flux
• Use of analytic (exact) solutions for algorithms and computation

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/tomography/xdesign/issues
• Documentation: https://github.com/tomography/xdesign/tree/master/docs
• Source Code: https://github.com/tomography/xdesign/tree/master/xdesign
• Tests: https://github.com/tomography/xdesign/tree/master/tests

The project is licensed under the BSD-3 license.

Ching, Daniel J., and Doga Gürsoy. "XDesign: an open-source software package for designing x-ray imaging phantoms and experiments." Journal of synchrotron radiation 24, no. 2 (2017): 537-544.

Since version 0.5, XDesign is available on the conda-forge channel. Install it in the usual way:

$ conda install xdesign -c conda-forge