<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The OpenGATE collaboration members are happy to invite you to attend our GATE-user meeting that will take place during the upcoming IEEE NSS-MIC meeting in San Diego, see below for details. This meeting is a unique opportunity for you to follow the progress that are being made in the development of GATE, to learn about what to expect in the next versions of GATE, and to share experience with GATE users. This event is free and lunch boxes will be provided to those who register.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope to see you there.</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(39, 54, 145);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>GATE-user meeting at the 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference</span></b><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-CA" class="" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(39, 54, 145);"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday November 4th, 12:30 - 2 pm, Sheffield room</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div></div></span></b></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-12:30 Welcome / introduction, Irène Buvat, IMIV, CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-12:45 On-going developments in GATE and what to expect in upcoming versions, Sébastien Jan, IMIV, CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-13:00 Presentations by GATE users :</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) "Investigation of the effects of photomultiplier pixel size on edge crystal Identification of scintillator arrays in PET detectors”, Y Valencia, D Prout, A Chatziioannou. University of California, Los Angeles, USA</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) "Simulation of a Compton telescope wtih GATE”, E Muñoz, J Barrio, A Etxebeste, C Lacasta, G Llosá, C Solaz, P Solevi, M Trovato, JF Oliver. IFIC, Valencia, Spain</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) "Using GATE for collimator and shielding design of a SPECT/MRI insert", D Salvado, K Erlandsson, BF Hutton. UCL, London, UK</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4) "Advantage of pinhole collimators over parallel hole collimators in reducing downscatter for I-123 imaging", A Konik, J de Beenhouwer, M King. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA</span><br class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- 13:45 Discussion, conclusion</span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><font color="#c00000" face="Verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Free registration at </b></font><a href="mailto:irene.buvat@u-psud.fr" style="text-align: justify;" class="">irene.buvat@u-psud.fr</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font color="#c00000" face="Verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class=""><a href="http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/Meetings" class="">http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/Meetings</a></b></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#c00000" face="Verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#c00000" face="Verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class=""> <div class=""><div class="">Irène Buvat</div><div class="">Unité Imagerie Moléculaire In Vivo<br class="">UMR 1023 Inserm/CEA/Université Paris Sud, ERL 9218 CNRS<br class="">CEA/I2BM/Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot<br class="">4 place de Général Leclerc<br class="">91400 Orsay<br class="">France<br class="">Tél : 01 69 86 77 79 / 01 69 86 78 76<br class="">Fax : 01 69 86 77 86<br class=""><a href="mailto:irene.buvat@u-psud.fr" class="">irene.buvat@u-psud.fr</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://i2bm.cea.fr/dsv/i2bm/SHFJ/IMIV" class="">http://i2bm.cea.fr/dsv/i2bm/SHFJ/IMIV</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://lidex-pim.wix.com/english/!quantification-in-pet-mri/citp" class="">http://lidex-pim.wix.com/english</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.guillemet.org/irene" class="">http://www.guillemet.org/irene</a></div></div> </div> <br class=""></div></body></html>