<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Lana,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thank you for your kind reply!</div><div class="">I am using the Docker image of GATE (which includes Geant4), so I guess everything is already installed there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Francesca<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 10 mag 2021, alle ore 20:38, Lana Beck <<a href="mailto:lana.beck@bristol.ac.uk" class="">lana.beck@bristol.ac.uk</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi Francesca,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">The data files are downloaded with Geant4. See here for G4 10.7:</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><a href="https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download" id="LPlnk245215" class="">https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download</a><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">You may have already downloaded them when you installed G4. For example, my data files are in<br class="">/usr/local/Cellar/geant4/10.5.1/share/Geant4-10.5.1/data (on macbook using brew)<br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">so perhaps you can find them in an equivalent path or download them if necessary. I suspect if they are missing, there would be an error message when you try to use it?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Best wishes,<br class="">Lana</div><div id="Signature" class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">-------------------<br class=""><b class="">Dr Lana Beck</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Research Associate</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Particle Physics Group</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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What are the radioactive decay data files (Francesca De Benetti)<br class=""> 2. Re: Mu Map Actor does not save output (Ville-Veikko Wettenhovi)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 14:01:33 +0200<br class="">From: Francesca De Benetti <<a href="mailto:francesca.debenetti@gmail.com" class="">francesca.debenetti@gmail.com</a>><br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org" class="">gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org</a><br class="">Subject: [Gate-users] What are the radioactive decay data files<br class="">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:92490401-0847-4E1D-9525-3647CF60D01B@gmail.com" class="">92490401-0847-4E1D-9525-3647CF60D01B@gmail.com</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">Dear GATE users,<br class=""><br class="">I am trying to simulate the energy deposition of a point source of Lu177, with user-defined spectrum.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">In the GATE wiki website I read that "The download of radioactive decay data files is required.”, but I don’t know where to find them and then how to include them in the simulation. Also, here<a href="https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/06a240b36ca55b9ec00f852df65265109bba4859/dosimetry/dosimetry/protontherapy/mac" class="">https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/06a240b36ca55b9ec00f852df65265109bba4859/dosimetry/dosimetry/protontherapy/mac</a><<a href="https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/06a240b36ca55b9ec00f852df65265109bba4859/dosimetry/dosimetry/protontherapy/mac" class="">https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/06a240b36ca55b9ec00f852df65265109bba4859/dosimetry/dosimetry/protontherapy/mac</a>> they don’t seem to download/include these radioactive decay data files, event though they actually use the RadioactiveDecay process.<br class="">Can please someone explain me what to do to simulate a radioactive decay?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">For completeness, I copy here the “Physics” section of my macro:<br class=""><br class="">/gate/physics/addPhysicsList emlivermore<br class="">/gate/physics/addProcess Compton<br class="">/gate/physics/processes/Compton/setModel LivermoreModel<br class="">/gate/physics/addProcess RayleighScattering<br class="">/gate/physics/processes/RayleighScattering/setModel LivermoreModel<br class="">/gate/physics/addProcess RadioactiveDecay<br class="">/gate/physics/addProcess HadronElastic<br class="">/gate/physics/processes/HadronElastic/setModel G4HadronElastic<br class="">/gate/physics/processes/HadronElastic/setDataSet G4HadronElasticDataSet<br class="">/gate/physics/processList Enabled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">/gate/physics/processList Initialized<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your help!<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class=""><br class="">Francesca<br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <<a href="http://lists.opengatecollaboration.org/pipermail/gate-users/attachments/20210507/9609994a/attachment-0001.html" class="">http://lists.opengatecollaboration.org/pipermail/gate-users/attachments/20210507/9609994a/attachment-0001.html</a>><br class=""><br class="">--------<br class=""></div></span></font></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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