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<a href="http://wiki.opengatecollaboration.org/index.php/Users_Guide_V7.0:Source#Pencil_Beam_source">
http://wiki.opengatecollaboration.org/index.php/Users_Guide_V7.0:Source#Pencil_Beam_source</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">De :</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org
 [mailto:gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">De la part de</span></b> S. Saghamanesh<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Envoyé :</span></b> jeudi 30 juillet 2015 16:14<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc :</span></b> Gate-users<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Objet :</span></b> [Gate-users] How to specify a Gaussian sampling over the source?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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 isn't such a capability in gate! As I found out, one can just select the type (Point, Plane, Volume) and then the shape (rectangular, ellipse, cylinder, ...) of the source. And the gate would sample uniformly over the source. What about if we need a non-uniform
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks in advance</span></font><font color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-family:
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