[Gate-users] Defining Cylinder Phantom

Peter Bloomfield peter.bloomfield at camhpet.ca
Thu Apr 15 16:06:43 CEST 2010


Hi Simon,

Many thanks for your response.

This is a general question, but will this be corrected in the next version, otherwise some of the examples and the bench mark 
macros will need to be modified?

Peter

On Thursday 15 April 2010, you wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Looking at the source code, I saw that default value for the Rmin parameter
> of a cylinder is unfortunatly set to 1 cm ...
> So just add the line /gate/phantom/geometry/setRmin 0 mm to get a full
> filled cylinder.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:25 PM, openGate Simulator <
> 
> peter.bloomfield at camhpet.ca> wrote:
> > Hello Gaters,
> >
> > I am having some difficulity definnig a cylindrical phantom. Any cylinder
> > I define has a hole running the length of it, centred in the phantom. I
> > have taken the example macro PET_CylindricalPET_System.mac and changed
> > the box phantom to a cylinder; I have attached the macro. If some one has
> > a chance can
> > they execute the macro on their system and check the presence of the hole
> > in
> > the phantom. The macro does not take long to execute.
> >
> > My system is
> >        OS:     openSUSE 11.2
> >        gcc:    4.4.1
> >        CLHEP: 2.0.4.2
> >        root: 5.25/04
> >        geant: 4.9.2.p01
> >        Gate: v6.0_p01
> >
> > I have also executed the macro under the ununtu Vbox system and get the
> > same
> > result.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this? Thanks in advance
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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