<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Hello Gate users,</DIV> <DIV>I have downloaded the file ecat.tar.gz from the site of GATE Collaboration and I followed the instructions written in the installation readme file.</DIV> <DIV>After extraction I placed the suitable files into the directories specified in the GATE User's Guide.</DIV> <DIV>/usr/local/ecat7/lib/Linux-g++/libecat.a</DIV> <DIV>/usr/local/ecat7/include/matrix.h</DIV> <DIV>/usr/local/ecat7/include/machine_indep.h</DIV> <DIV>All the above steps were made before installing Gate.1.2.0.</DIV> <DIV>Then I defined the enviromental variable ECAT7_HOME and set it to the home directrory where ecat7 library is installed into my system (Fedora Core 3,gcc 3.4.2.) with the following command:</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM><STRONG>export ECAT7_HOME=/usr/local/ecat7</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>After sourcing the following configration message was printed</DIV> <DIV><EM><STRONG>Use of ECAT7 data output enabled</STRONG></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV>However, after completing the installation of GATE and run the simulation example PET_Ecat_System.mac, the ecat7 data output was not working with GATE.</DIV> <DIV>To confirm this conclusion I typed the following command:</DIV> <DIV><EM><STRONG>/gate/output/describe</STRONG></EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>and the followings were printed</DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>gate/output/analysis</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>gate/output/digi</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>gate/output/ascii</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>gate/output/root</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></EM></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2>gate/output/sinogram</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>suggesting that GATE cannot still produce ecat7 data outputs.</DIV> <DIV>I wonder if you could help me find out the problem and provide me with instructions that will help me produce ecat7 outputs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best regards,</DIV> <DIV>Nicolas</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>____________________________________________</DIV> <DIV>National Technical University of Athens</DIV> <DIV>Department of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science</DIV> <DIV>Biomedical Simulations and Imaging Technologies Laboratory</DIV> <DIV><A href="">www.biosim.ntua.gr/NIMlab</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>