<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">Dear Gaters,<br><br></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">Maybe it's a silly question, or it has already been
answered but I'm running long simulations and I can't find any clues about the
progression of an ongoing simulation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">Does someone have a trick to get this information ?
maybe in % relatively to the TotalNumberOfPrimaries ?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">I've tried using the verbose commands, and the
/gate/verbose Beam command gives output of every generated particle ... but
flooding the console with outputs doesn't help with the simulation time :/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">I've read in <i>"A review of the use and
potential of the GATE Monte Carlo simulation code for radiation therapy and
dosimetry applications" by David Sarrut</i> a table with time and number
of particles needed to get a fixed uncertainty (2% in this table).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">For cases where the source isn't defined with
TotalNumberOfPrimaries, but in activity mode, I'd also be happy to know how to
get this type of information (time and number of particles needed to get a
fixed uncertainty) if anyone has a simple way to get it :)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">Thanks in advance<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal" align="left"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(32,18,77)" lang="EN-US">Matthieu<br></span></p>
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