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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR">Hi Atik,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">As a quick answer, you need to convert the mouse image provided as an analyze format (*.hdr, *<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.img) to interfile format (</span></strong>*.h33,
*.i33), I usually Xmedcon (available here <a href="https://xmedcon.sourceforge.io/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#4A6EE0">https://xmedcon.sourceforge.io/</span></a> ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">In case you want to manipulate the images before you convert them to interfile using MATLAB or IDL, please be aware of the Endianness, if I remember well Linux uses a Big-endian bit order
(you can try Little-endian).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">I’m familiar with Xrays, but I think it shouldn’t be an issue, we can just modify the Xrays with the protons beam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Please give it a try and let's see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Mahdjoub<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>De : </b><a href="mailto:atiqchep@gmail.com">Atiq Ur Rahman</a><br>
<b>Envoyé le :</b>Sunday, March 1, 2020 10:04 PM<br>
<b>À : </b><a href="mailto:mahdjoub.hamdi@hotmail.fr">Mahdjoub Hamdi</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Mahdjoub, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you a lot for your detailed answer. I actually now able to do that with .hdr and .image file. As on the website you mentioned, the ct information is given in .hdr and .img format. Can you tell how we can convert a .hdr and .img into
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<p class="MsoNormal">Actually, what I am doing is using a Proton beam to generate the positron emitter distribution using mouse phantom in one simulation and then reading it in the other PET simulation. My aim is to see the image of the Proton beam. I have
physics background with a beginner level experience in Gate and image reconstruction.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 3:12 AM Mahdjoub Hamdi <<a href="mailto:mahdjoub.hamdi@hotmail.fr">mahdjoub.hamdi@hotmail.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Hi Atik,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Sorry for the delay!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">I didn't look into this couple of years ago! But here is a working example for the mouse atlas voxelized phantom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">1- Back then GATE didn't read DICOM files so I had to use Interfile format (see attached *.h33 and *.i33).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">2- Since using the whole mouse phantom is computationally intensive (even with a cluster computing), I kept the chest and truncated the rest of the mouse body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Here are responses to your questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">How to define this file in GATEfor the given atlas data?</span></strong><span style="color:#0E101A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">I've attached a file 'Voxel_mouse.mac' where you can see how I have defined the atlas data in GATE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All the elements are also defined in text files. </span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">If you're not using a whole-body mouse as a voxelized phantom, you don't have to define all organ labels in the text file, you can specify just the ones that exist in the region you're
studying (like brain structures for example).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">My problem is, that I do not know the interval defined in the attenuation range file.</span></strong><span style="color:#0E101A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">In the case of the atlas, you just add the tissue composition of each organ in the GATE material database, and then you specify these materials in the attenuation range file. I have attached
an attenuation range file, for the same attached voxelized mouse phantom, take a look on it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">in the attached attenuation range file, you will find these names: SoftTissue, Heart, Water, Pancreas and here is how I have defined the Heart into the GATE material database: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A">Heart: d=1.05 g/cm3 ; n=11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Hydrogen ; f=0.104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Carbon ; f=0.139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Nitrogen ; f=0.029<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Oxygen ; f=0.718<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Sodium ; f=0.001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Phosphor ; f=0.002<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Sulfur ; f=0.002<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Chlorine ; f=0.002<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Potassium ; f=0.003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Calcium ; f=0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#0E101A"> +el: name=Scandium ; f=0.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I hope it helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mahdjoub<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Objet :</b> Re: [Gate-users] How to access Dicom Images of small Animals (RAT, Cat, Frog)</span>
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in a text files. My problem is , that I do not know the interval define in the attenuation range file. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">old and New and code....<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How I can writ new Material conversion file. The given atlas data file, materials are described but the interval or ranges are not known.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 12:04 AM Mahdjoub Hamdi <<a href="mailto:mahdjoub.hamdi@hotmail.fr" target="_blank">mahdjoub.hamdi@hotmail.fr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi Atik,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Take a look here:
<a href="https://neuroimage.usc.edu/neuro/Digimouse" target="_blank">https://neuroimage.usc.edu/neuro/Digimouse</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This is the Digimouse project, where you can find coregistered PET/CT and cryosection mouse image plus the Atlas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">You don't have to use them as Dicom format, you can use them as an interfile format where the binary file is short integer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I used to work with these images for small animal radiation therapy, let me know if you face any issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have simulated a PET with small geometric efficiency. I want to try some animal CT dicom Images as Phantom. Can you please point me some free online repository, database or someone share if he have for study and research purposes. I
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