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Phantom File

Each line in the text file describes an element of the phantom. Each line contains seven entries, in the following form:
element-type cx cy dx dy r a
The first entry defines the type of the element, either rectangle, ellipse, triangle, sector, or segment.

For all phantom elements, r is the rotation applied to the object in degrees counterclockwise and a is the X-ray attenuation coefficient of the object. Where objects overlap, the attenuations of the overlapped objects are summed.

As opposed to the r and a fields, the cx, cy, dx and dy fields have different meanings depending on the element type.