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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear all,</div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am pleased to announce the release of v1.0 of the STIR-GATE-Connection:</div>
<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://github.com/UCL/STIR-GATE-Connection/releases/tag/v1.0" class="">https://github.com/UCL/STIR-GATE-Connection/releases/tag/v1.0</a> </div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This project aims to link GATE, a Monte-Carlo simulation toolkit for medical physics applications, with STIR (Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction) by:</div>
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<div class="">• creating a GATE compatible voxelised phantom, from a parameter file or interfile, using STIR functionality<br class="">
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<div class="">• setting up and running GATE simulations in cluster array jobs<br class="">
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<div class="">• combining and unlisting root list mode files into sinogram format for reconstruction using STIR</div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="">• computing normalisation factors and randoms estimation from delayed events (in future scatter estimation)</span></div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We will continue to further develop this project and welcome any and all contributions in the form of examples GATE scanner geometries and modifications to the existing scripts. Please feel
free to raise issues on the GitHub. </div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please cite our v1.0 release : <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4271795" class="">https://zenodo.org/record/4271795</a> </div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Take care!</div>
<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Robert Twyman</div>
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