<span class="gmail_quote"><font face="Calibri">Hi,<br>I was studying the distribution of the positron annihilation position for the F-18, O-15, etc radionuclides. I noticed that the annihilation distribution is strange and doesn't fit with the theoretical curves (see joined schemesfor the two cases). In fact, for a point source, the theoretical curves decrease from a maximum at position 0 contrary to the simulated data, we can see in the root file (Positron_annihil_distance_mm ) that we have 2 curves.<span> </span>This problem has been reported before? Does somebody have an idea about the origin of this distribution? </font></span><div>
<div><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Calibri">Another question, if we define the F-18 as an ion (for e.g. /Gate/source/nameSource/particle ion ; /Gate/source/nameSource/gps/ion 9 18 0 0) , do we model the acolinearity? because in the root file Acolinea_Angle_Distribution_deg we see nothing.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Calibri">I have also a question to the GATE developers : How did you define the position emission distribution (for e.g. Fit = CLHEP::RandExponential::shoot(0.7) ) ? <span> </span>0.7 is found empirically or how?</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Calibri">Thank you <span> </span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm">
<span lang="FR"><font face="Calibri">Natacha Ruiz<br>Service de médecine nucléaire, Hôpital Tenon<br>4, rue de la Chine, 75970, Paris cedex 20</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm">
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