Dear Elia Alessio,<div> Thanks for your reply! In source_description_file, I want to set the energy spread with the 0.1% of mean energy. In users guide, <span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif;"> it says that </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif;">mean energy in MeV</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif;">energy spread in % of the mean energy. So, I set it with 0.1. However, when I simulate it on GATE8.0, it doesn't work while it is working on GATE7.2. When I set it with 0.001, it works. In GATE7.2, both of them works.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif;">The error is like that:<img src="cid:59b8be$1$15d62ed0d63$Coremail$zhanghui$impcas.ac.cn"></span></div><div>I want to know in GATE8.0, if I want to simulate the energy spread with 0.1% of the mean energy, how can I do? What dose it mean for 0.1? 0.1 of the mean energy or 0.1% the mean energy? Thanks again.</div><div> <br><blockquote name="replyContent" style="padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px;border-left:#b6b6b6 2px solid;margin-right:0">-----原始邮件-----<br>
<b>发件人:</b> "Elia Alessio" <alessio.elia@medaustron.at><br>
<b>发送时间:</b> 2017年7月7日 星期五<br>
<b>收件人:</b> "张晖" <zhanghui@impcas.ac.cn><br>
<b>抄送:</b> "gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org" <gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org><br>
<b>主题:</b> RE: [Gate-users] TPS pencil beam source<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Zhang Hui,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">as reported in the wiki, the plan description file contains information about the plan, like number of fields, gantry
angle for each field, energy of each layer from each field, number of spot in each layer, spot description (position in x- and y- direction at isocenter and intensity) for each spot from each layer. Some of the parameters implemented in the plan description
file are not used directly by the Gate source code as either not useful for the simulation or not implemented yet (like for example the PatientSupportAngle). There are a lot of parameters described in this file and all of them are coming from typical dicom
RTplan file. For a further description about them maybe you can have a look to some dicom RTplan file (they are standard type therefore the tags are always the same) and look at the description of the parameters directly from there.
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parameter) is actually missing in the wiki. The description about the source_description_file could be also improved. Maybe you can specify what is not exactly clear to you so far?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hope it can help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Gate-users] TPS pencil beam source<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Gaters,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I'm using TPS pencil beam source to simulate <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"> active beam scanning delivery techniques with carbon ion. I'm </span> confused about <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"> the
descriptions of source_description_file and plan_description_file in users guide. The descriptions are too brief especially about plan_description_file. In example/example_Radiotherapy/example5/data/PlanDescriptionToGATE.txt, there are many comments with 'CURRENTLY
THIS VALUE IS NOT USED'. Dose anyone know the detail description about them? Thank you!</span><br>
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