[Gate-users] Coincidence Sorting Methods

anwen long longanwen1981 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 02:53:15 CET 2011


Dear all:
      Actually, there is nearly no difference between the two methods. So,
I guess that GATE use only one of them and you cannot choose the method
in your simulation using .mac file.

2011/11/25 Marcin Balcerzyk <m.balcerzyk at pluri.ucm.es>

> Dear Benjamin.
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> If I remember well there are two aspects of the issue of coincidence
> sorting:
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> 1.       /gate/digitizer/Coincidences/MultiplesPolicy takeAllGoods (and
> other values). There is an extensive description in the manual with the
> figures.  I think takeAllGoods is the default value.
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> 2.       /gate/digitizer/Coincidences/insert deadtime
> /gate/digitizer/Coincidences/deadtime/setDeadTime 1800. ns
> /gate/digitizer/Coincidences/deadtime/setMode nonparalysable
> If you use deadtime - it can be paralysable or nonparalysable (also applied
> to Singles) and refers more to what you asked about. You may define
> deadtime, but do not have to.
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> Kind regards
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> Marcin Balcerzyk
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> Universidad de Sevilla
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> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:53:58 +0000
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> From: Benjamin Armand Frisch < <mailto:benjamin.frisch at cern.ch>
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> Dear colleagues,
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> I try to dig a bit deeper into the coincidence sorter provided by GATE. To
> my understanding, there are two ways of opening coincidence windows:
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> - once a Single opens a window, no other single can open a new window as
> long as that first window has not been closed. Coincidences happen within
> this window.
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> - each Single opens its own coincidence window, coincidences being possible
> within any of these windows.
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> The GATE User Guide properly explains both methods and indicates that they
> have been implemented. However, I do not understand how to select one of
> these methods!
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> Could somebody help me with that?
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> Best regards, Benjamin
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