<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello all,<br><br></div><div>I'm setting up a simulation to study effect of DOI on point source resolution in a PET detector cylinder based on the PET benchmark code. I'm finding that my simulations are taking a long time. <br>
<br>I tried to turn on/off different processes being modeled in physics.mac and found that commenting out the 'eMultipleScattering' lines in the macro seems to reduce the simulation time significantly. Also, the range of the hits for this process are not very large (typically < 10^-2 mm), which suggests to me that simulating this process is not very important. <br>
<br>Changing the F18LineSource from a e+ emitter to a back-to-back gamma source also helped a lot.<br><br></div><div>I have two questions:<br></div><div>1) What exactly is 'eMultipleScattering' simulating? The user guide description was not too clear to me.<br>
</div><div>2) If you were trying to just investigate the effect of DOI on resolution, are there any other changes you would make to the PET benchmark code to save simulation time?<br></div><div><br></div>Thanks for your time and comments!<br>
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