<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For my current project I’m trying to simulate the acquisition of the Jaszczak phantom filled with 100 MBq Lu-177 on a Symbia SPECT system. For this, I use the VIP-network (<a href="http://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr" class="">http://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr</a>) where the amount of primaries are calculated as time per projection (30s) times initial activity. This results in 30x100 000 000 = 3 000 000 000 primaries. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the Lu-177 activity, I use the MIRD radionuclide data and decay schemes, 2nd edition, KF Eckerman & A Endo Eds, The Society of Nuclear Medicine, Reston, VA, SNM, 2008, as proposed in several GATE examples. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When this experiment is performed in real life, we get about 14000 counts per slice in 30 seconds for the highest photo peak . However, the simulation only gives about 1400 counts per slice. So, only about 10% of the counts are given for the experiment. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone have a suggestion where this difference can come from? Thanks in advance for your time!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Niels van der Werf </div><div class="">Erasmus MC - The Netherlands</div></body></html>