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<td width=40%><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Hongwei Ye <howellye@yahoo.com></b> </font>
<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: <gate-users-bounces@lists.healthgrid.org></font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">06/05/2008 03:25 PM</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[Gate-users] point source and sensitivity</font></table>
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<br><font size=3>Dear GATE users:<br>
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I'm trying to get the sensitivity image for a ECAT system using a series of simulations of point sources. But I met some problems: for a point source (a sphere with 1000 Bq, 0.1~0.5 mm radius, back-to-back gammas in vacuum) at center, the coincidences increase with radius !!! This seems odd to me. Should #coincidences keep same (or almost same)? The following data is radius----#coincidences for scans with 1 second only:<br>
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0.1---11; 0.2---106; 0.3---192; 0.4---247; 0.5---319<br>
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I copy a part of code here for your checking:<br>
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gate/source/addSource PointSource<br>
/gate/source/PointSource/setActivity 1000 Bq<br>
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/gate/source/PointSource/gps/particle gamma<br>
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/gate/source/PointSource/setForcedUnstableFlag true<br>
/gate/source/PointSource/setForcedHalfLife 6586 s</font>
<br><font size=3>/gate/source/PointSource/gps/energytype Mono<br>
/gate/source/PointSource/gps/monoenergy 511. keV<br>
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/gate/source/PointSource/gps/type Volume<br>
/gate/source/PointSource/gps/shape Sphere<br>
/gate/source/PointSource/gps/radius 0.4 mm<br>
/gate/source/PointSource/gps/centre 0.0 0.0 0.0 cm<br>
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And #coincidences is too high (=0.319 for sensitivity) for this ECAT system when radius=0.5 mm. By some simple calculations, the sensitivity at center is about 0.18. Could anyone point me out what is wrong, or tell me how to do "point source" simulations?<br>
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