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Click <a href="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/Newsletter-gate-users-sept2012" class="type1">here</a> for the online version</center> <center></center></body></center> <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="750"> <tr bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td width="2%" align="right" valign="middle"><img src="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/sites/opengatecollaboration.org/files/pixture_logo.png" width="90" height="90" /> </td> <td width="98%" align="left" valign="middle"> GATE Simulations of Preclinical and Clinical Scans in Emission Tomography, Transmission Tomography and Radiation Therapy <a href="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org" class="type1">opengatecollaboration.org</a></td> </tr> </table> <table align="center" valign="middle" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="9" width="900" class="brder"> <tr> <td bgcolor="cornsilk"> <table width="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="9" align="center"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#f6aa0e" class="brder2">GATE-user newsletter September, 2012 / issue 1</td> </tr> </table> <table bgcolor="cornsilk" width="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="9" align="center"> <tr> <td width="72% align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#feecd2" class="brder2">LATEST NEWS <div align="justify">A new public release of GATE (V6.2) is available for <a href="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/GATE620release" class="type1">download</a> since September, 4th. A dedicated installation procedure can be found <a href="http://wiki.opengatecollaboration.org/index.php/New_Compilation_ProcedureV6.2" class="type1">here</a>.</div> This release includes the following new features: • <class="text4">Optical imaging package to generate and track optical photons • <class="text4">New Actor: mhd image format reader • <class="text4">New Actor: Cross Section Production (Carbon 11 and Oxygen 15) • <class="text4">New Actor: Electromagnetic Properties • <class="text4">SPECT feature: Store the septal penetration information • <class="text4">SPECT feature: Define an acquisition protocol with multiple energy windows • <class="text4">QT visualisation tool • <class="text4">CMake build system • <class="text4">Interfile Image format: The interfileReader supports both Big-Endian and Little-Endian byte order • <class="text4">Multi-system approach and multi-coincidence sorter management • <class="text4">Sinogram output: Available without the ecat7 library • <class="text4">New physics process: Cerenkov effect available </class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"> </td> <td width="28% align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#feecd2" class="brder2">LATEST RESULTS <div align="justify"> <center><img src="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/sites/opengatecollaboration.org/files/figure9a_for_albertine.png" width="122.8" height="110" /></center> <center><img src="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/sites/opengatecollaboration.org/files/figure9d_for_albertine.png" width="122.8" height="110" /></center></div> <div align="justify">Which is the GATE-simulated image and which is the real patient image, A or B? (Answer in the next newsletter)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="9" align="center" > <tr> <td width="28% align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#feecd2" class="brder2"> TRAINING SESSIONS <div align="justify">The next GATE training session will take place February 12-13-14, 2013, in Saclay, near Paris, France. Please save the date, registration information will be circulated in November 2012.</div> <div align="justify">The training materials of the last GATE training session (February 14-15-16, 2012) can be found <a href="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/TrainingMaterials" class="type1" >here</a>.</div> </td> <td width="72% align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#feecd2" class="brder2"> MEETINGS <div align="justify">The next GATE-users meeting will take place during the <a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/NSSMain.asp" class="type1">2012 IEEE MIC conference</a> in Anaheim, USA. This meeting will feature a presentation of the new functionalities implemented in the latest release GATE V6.2. We will also describe the upcoming functionalities, especially those related to optical imaging and GPU options (hGATE project: <a href="http://hgate.univ-brest.fr/" class="type1">hgate.univ-brest.fr</a>). Discussions with users will be encouraged to share their experience regarding their use of GATE and their expectations for the future. The meeting will take place Thursday, November 1st, from 18:45 to 20:15. Attendance is free. Here is a list of GATE-related oral presentations and posters that will be given by members of the OpenGATE collaboration during the 2012 IEEE MIC conference: • <class="text4">D. Sarrut et al. Gate Simulation of a Complete Proton Treatment Combined with Prompt-Gamma Monitoring (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=HT-4" class="type1">HT-4-5</a>) • <class="text4">C. Robert. PET-based Dose Delivery Verification in Hadrontherapy: Simulation Study of PET System Designs in Realistic Clinical Conditions (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=HT-4" class="type1">HT-4-6</a>) • <class="text4">J. Bert et al. Hybrid GATE: a GPU/CPU Implementation for Imaging and Therapy Applications (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M08#" class="type1">M08-1</a>) • <class="text4">V. Cuplov. Optical Imaging Simulation Using GATE (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M10#" class="type1">M10-23</a>) • <class="text4">A. F. Mohamad Hadi et al. Simulation with GATE of Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber and a Proposed Cylindrical 3γ Camera (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M10#" class="type1">M10-34</a>) • <class="text4">A. Autret et al. Projector with Realistic Detector Scatter Modelling for PET List-Mode Reconstruction (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M17#" class="type1">M17-14</a>) • <class="text4">Z. Bahi et al. High Performance Multi-GPU Acceleration for Fully 3D List-Mode PET Reconstruction (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M17#" class="type1">M17-35</a>) • <class="text4">D. Benoit et al. Impact of the Forward Projection Model in Reconstruction of Small-Animal SPECT Data Acquired with a Space-Variable-Focusing Collimator (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M17#" class="type1">M17-39</a>) • <class="text4">D. Benoit et al. Design of a Spatially-Variable-Focusing Collimator for Small-Animal SPECT (<a href="http://www.nss-mic.org/2012/Program/ListProgramDB.asp?session=M19#" class="type1">M19-7</a>) </class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="9" align="center" > <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#feecd2" class="brder2">RECENT GATE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS <div align="justify"> • <class="text4">Könik A, Madsen MT, Sunderland JJ. GATE simulations of small animal SPECT for determination of scatter fraction as a function of object size. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. (2012) in press • <class="text4">Stute S, Vauclin S, Necib H, Grotus N, Tylski P, Rehfeld NS, Hapdey S, Buvat I. Realistic and efficient modeling of radiotracer heterogeneity in Monte Carlo simulations of PET images with tumors. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Med. 59 (2012) 113-122 • <class="text4">Papadimitroulas P, Loudos G, Nikiforidis GC, Kagadis GC. A dose point kernel database using GATE Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for nuclear medicine applications: Comparison with other Monte Carlo codes. Med Phys. 39 (2012) 5238-47 • <class="text4">Grevillot L, Bertrand D, Dessy F, Freud N, Sarrut D. GATE as a GEANT4-based Monte Carlo platform for the evaluation of proton pencil beam scanning treatment plans. Phys Med Biol. 57 (2012) 4223-44 • <class="text4">Ströbele J, Schreiner T, Fuchs H, Georg D. Comparison of basic features of proton and helium ion pencil beams in water using GATE. Z Med Phys. 22 (2012) 170-8 • <class="text4">Seravalli E, Robert C, Bauer J, Stichelbaut F, Kurz C, Smeets J, Van Ngoc Ty C, Schaart DR, Buvat I, Parodi K, Verhaegen F. Monte Carlo calculations of positron emitter yields in proton radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol. 57 (2012) 1659-73 <div align="justify">If you wish to have your GATE-related papers listed here and/or on the GATE website, please send the complete reference to <a href="mailto:dubois@imnc.in2p3.fr" class="type1">us</a>. </div></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></class="text4"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" align="center"> <tr align="center" valign="middle"> <td align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#f6aa0e"> Copyright © the OpenGATE collaboration </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </body> </html>