<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi all,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I would like to ask an important question regarding GATE simulation. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">How can one find precision (i.e., uncertainty in the tally mean caused by statistical fluctuations)
of his/her own GATE Monte Carlo simulation? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Since, such a quantity is mandatory in order to interpret the acceptability of the results and evaluate the ability of the variance reduction techniques as well. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thank you in advance,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Hojjat Mahani, </b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PhD Candidate of Medical Radiation Engineering,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute.</font></div><div><font size="2"></font> </div><div><font size="2">Senior Researcher at Medical Imaging Systems Lab,</font></div><div><font size="2">Research
Center for Molecular and Cellular Imaging.<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mobile: +98 (0) 9132296856 & +98 (0) 9356284400 </font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emails: </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:hojjat.mahani@yahoo"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">hojjat.mahani@yahoo</font></a><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> & <u>hojjat.mahani@gmail.com</u><br></font><u><br></u><br></div></div></body></html>