<div dir="ltr">It looks like ring repeaters does not like twice, other times of repartition seem to work fine. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 3:53 PM Zhengzhi Liu <<a href="mailto:zliu36@stanford.edu">zliu36@stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear GATE developers and users, <div><br></div><div>I recently came across a weird situation in GATE and have spent a few days on it, but still could not figure it out why. Here is the problem:</div><div><br></div><div>In <a href="https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/blob/develop/benchmarks/benchPET/camera.mac" target="_blank">benchPET</a> and <a href="https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/blob/master/imaging/PET/PET_CylindricalPET_System.mac" target="_blank">GateContrib</a>, the original code works fine, but soon as I change the times in the ring repeater to 2 in the following code, there will be no coincidence event recorded: </div><div><br></div><div>/gate/head/repeaters/insert ring<br>/gate/head/ring/setRepeatNumber 4<br></div><div><br></div><div>I did check all the details and nothing seems to have been changed fundamentally, except that there are fewer detectors in the transaxial plane. Even so, there are still two detector panels facing each other as shown in the attached figure (benchPET_ring_repeaters_2.png). Each detector panel has registered many singles as shown in the root plot (hits_on_detectors.png). However, there was no coincidence event registered, not event a single coincidence event. Originally I thought it might be due to low geometrical sensitivity but after moving these detector panels closer to each other and increasing simulation time, there was still no coincidence event registered. </div><div><br></div><div>This phenomenon happens in both PET simulation cases mentioned above and other PET simulations. Has anyone come across this problem before? Is this a bug or simply my mistake? Please give me any thoughts or help. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much,</div><div>Sincere regards.</div><div><br></div><div>Zhengzhi </div><div> </div><div><br></div></div>
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