<div dir="ltr"><div>I ended up using directional splitting and biasing where the radius is roughly the area of the opening of the collimator.</div><div>I am currently testing the BiasingFactor that gives me reasonable results compared to no biasing. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks GT<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>/process/em/setDirectionalSplitting true<br>/process/em/setDirectionalSplittingTarget 0 0 0 mm # x, y, z components of center<br>/process/em/setDirectionalSplittingRadius {SplittingRadius} mm<br><br>/process/em/setSecBiasing eBrem world {BiasingFactor} 100 MeV<br>/process/em/setSecBiasing Rayl world {BiasingFactor} 100 MeV<br>/process/em/setSecBiasing phot world {BiasingFactor} 100 MeV<br>/process/em/setSecBiasing compt world {BiasingFactor} 100 MeV<br>/process/em/setSecBiasing annihil world {BiasingFactor} 100 MeV</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:26 PM G Tom <<a href="mailto:gregthom992@gmail.com">gregthom992@gmail.com</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"><div>HI all,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to improve my simulations with variance reduction techniques.</div><div><br></div><div>The simulation uses particles from a phase space source just above the jaws. However, because of the size of the jaws
(5cmx5cm opening)
and SRS cone
(10mm)
, only a small fraction of particles make it through the jaws to the tungsten SRS cone aperture below. Very few photons actually reach the dose measurement box below. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What are some ideas to improve the statistics in the dose measurement volume ? One way is to choose particles that have a higher probability of reaching that cone opening. How is that implemented in Gate ? Are there other VRTs in GATE that will help here? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Below is my setup with the jaws and cone. I show a few photons (green) stopped by the upper jaws before making it to the SRS cone (blue/Grey) below.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kll94yc01" alt="image.png" width="541" height="335"><br></div></div>
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