Software license

XCIST is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License: https://github.com/xcist/main/blob/master/licenses/LICENSE

How to refer to XCIST in publications

The authors request that any publications that rely on XCIST include a reference to its release number, to our XCIST overview publication, and to the XCIST GitHub website.

For example the following sentence may be used: "All simulations were performed with the CatSim simulator in the open-source X-ray and CT simulation toolkit XCIST (release 1.4.4), which is described in [1] and can be downloaded from [2]."

[1] Wu, M., FitzGerald, P., Zhang, J., Segars, W.P., Yu, H., Xu, Y. and De Man, B., 2022. XCIST—an open access x-ray/CT simulation toolkit. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 67(19), p.194002.

[2] XCIST GitHub website. URL: https://github.com/xcist.

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