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<div>Ah, right. I (very!) briefly worked on this a few years ago. I'll get back to you about this tomorrow. I need to look it up to refresh my memory.</div>
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<div>On May 19, 2014, at 16:17, Wei Deng <<a href="mailto:wdeng@oakland.edu">wdeng@oakland.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much. So my question is how to form the attenuation map in Gate using XCAT-phantom attenuation data. For example, The attenuation data 'heart_atten.bin' was generated with the program XCAT, with the attenuation coefficient 0.009789/voxel
or 0.1000/cm, how could I read the attenuation data for simulation in Gate?<br>
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thank you so much.<br>
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<div>The attenuation range does not give the actual attenuation coefficients. Read the user's guide: <a href="http://wiki.opengatecollaboration.org/index.php/Users_Guide_V7.0:Voxelized_Source_and_Phantom#Conversion_into_material_definitions" target="_blank">http://wiki.opengatecollaboration.org/index.php/Users_Guide_V7.0:Voxelized_Source_and_Phantom#Conversion_into_material_definitions</a></div>
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<div>The first two numbers on a line represent the range of voxel values for which the voxel will be assigned the material on the line (so Gate knows the attenuation coefficients by knowing what material the voxel is). The last four numbers on the line are
simply the visualization parameters, i.e. what color this specific material will be on the screen and how transparent it will be. It has nothing to do with the attenuation coefficients.</div>
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<div>I hope this helps.</div>
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<div>On May 19, 2014, at 9:30, Wei Deng <<a href="mailto:wdeng@oakland.edu" target="_blank">wdeng@oakland.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello, gaters. There is a question when I am studying the voxelized phantom. It read 'AttenuationRange.dat' to form the attenuation map in VoxelizedPhantom.mac in the examplePET. However the last column of 'AttenuationRange.dat' is not discripted
as 'attenuation coefficient' but 'Tansparency'. Who can tell me the relationship between 'attenuation coefficient' and 'Tansparency'? Should I replace the 'Tansparency' with my 'attenuation coefficient' when forming the attenuation map?
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My phantom was created by XCAT. Is there any documentation (or are there examples) for integrating XCAT-phantom<br>
attenuation data into a gate simulation?<br>
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thank you so much for your attention.<br>
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