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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Gate users,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m a novel user of GATE and I want to add a voxelized phantom to my SPECT simulation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I try to imitate a clinical scan, where the detector should be close to the phantom/object, but there an overlapping issue between the scanner and the bounds of the phantom (which are made of air/vacuum).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know that it’s a known issue originating from GEANT4, and I have tried a few of the suggested solutions in the mailing list (splitting the phantom to multi-voxelized phantoms, and building the phantom by defining each voxel independently),
but to no avail.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone found a simple workaround for the overlapping issue?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ayeleth.<o:p></o:p></p>
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