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Dear gaters,</div>
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I tried to get the dose-average LET value for a 62MeV Proton beam passing through water.</div>
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Here is part of my Gate scripts:</div>
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<span>/gate/actor/addActor LETActor MyActor<br>
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<div>/gate/actor/MyActor/save output/LET_62/myLETactor.txt<br>
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<div>/gate/actor/MyActor/attachTo waterbox<br>
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<div>/gate/actor/MyActor/setResolution 1 1 200<br>
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<span>/gate/actor/MyActor/setType DoseAveraged</span><br>
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It is supposed that the LET-depth curve has its max value around the bragg peak region, but the simulation outcome showed that the LET curve has another peak at the entry point, which is unreasonable. I don't know if this is a bug or something is wrong in my
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Thanks,</div>
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chao.</div>
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