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<span style="">Dear</span> mailing <span style="">list</span>,</p>
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<span style="" lang="EN-GB">I came across a weird issue with one of my simulations.
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<span style="" lang="EN-GB">I am trying to incorporate to my simulation a voxelised phantom including as materials: Lung, a modified version of Lung and Liver. A previous simulation, incorporating only the two types of Lung materials, ran without any problem.
However, when I add the Liver to it, it does not work anymore and Gate seems to be stuck after:</span></p>
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<div>### === G4UAtomicDeexcitation::InitialiseForNewRun()<br>
### === Auger cascade flag: false<br>
### === Ignore cuts flag: false<br>
### === PIXE model for hadrons: Empirical<br>
### === PIXE model for e+-: Penelope<br>
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<div><span style="" lang="EN-GB">I attached to this email a log file of it. <br>
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<div>The phantom seems to have been loaded beforehand properly and recognised "Liver" as a keyword. But it gets stuck no matter the size of the input image & even when I replaced the GateMaterials.db to the original one (using Blood instead of my modified Lung
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<div><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">However, when I change from "Liver" to "Blood", it does go through</span>.</span></span> <br>
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<div><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The input image is also not the issue, because I have reproduced the bug with previous images, for which the simulation worked perfectly when the Liver was not used. Also reproduced it on three different installs of Gate.<br>
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<div><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">So I assume there is a bug somewhere.</span></span><br>
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I am using a phantom volume of the "ImageRegionalizedVolume" type, but I also reproduced the bug with
<span>"ImageRegularParametrisedVolume".</span></div>
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<div style=""><span>I was thinking there might be a problem with the physics list I am using (empenelope) or/and with an atom defined for the Liver. I haven't checked it thoroughly as I don't really have the time right now.<br>
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<div style=""><span>Any input on that, or temporary work-around? </span></div>
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<div style=""><span>Best Regards,<br>
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<div style=""><span>Elise Emond<br>
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