<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="">Hi Apsara,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think that the dose actor will give you the energy deposited in water.</div><div class="">(<a href="https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools_to_interact_with_the_simulation_actors.html#dose-measurement-doseactor" class="">https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools_to_interact_with_the_simulation_actors.html#dose-measurement-doseactor</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The proton energy you can get with the phasespace actor.</div><div class=""><a href="https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools_to_interact_with_the_simulation_actors.html#phase-space-actor" class="">https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools_to_interact_with_the_simulation_actors.html#phase-space-actor</a></div><div class="">You may need to create several layers of ðŸ’¦ water (the actor only gives you information on the exit/entrance from/to a layer) You may need to select the protons by the CreatorProcess == 0 (produced by the beam) and NuclearProcess == 0 (did not experience any nuclear interactions) in each layer or simply get an average  Ekine of protons with the above restrictions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dmitry</div><div class=""><br class="">
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 May 2021, at 21:22, APSARA TENNAKOON <<a href="mailto:apsara@connect.hku.hk" class="">apsara@connect.hku.hk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear GATE users,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to obtain a depth distribution of proton kinetic energy in a water phantom, e.g. as seen on the left axis here: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Proton-energy-loss-in-water-as-a-function-of-penetration-depth-for-two-incident-proton_fig4_3138600" target="_blank" class="">https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Proton-energy-loss-in-water-as-a-function-of-penetration-depth-for-two-incident-proton_fig4_3138600 </a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">How may I obtain this in GATE?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Apsara</div></div>
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