<div dir="ltr">Dear Matthew,<div>I'll try to simulate with the ion source!</div><div><div>I really appreciate your answer!</div><div> <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best Regards,</b><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Nícollas Gonçalves Cavedini</b></font><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">BSc in Medical Physics - PUCRS<br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#000000">M. Eng. in Electrical Engineering - PUCRS</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#000000">PhD student in Biomedical Gerontology - PUCRS</font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Medical Image Computing Laboratory (MEDICOM)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Contact: +55 (51) 99922-9957</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Porto Alegre, Brazil.</font></span><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em qua., 16 de mar. de 2022 às 13:35, Matthew Strugari <<a href="mailto:matthew.strugari@dal.ca" target="_blank">matthew.strugari@dal.ca</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Nicollas,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">To use the Y-90 <a href="https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/source_and_particle_management.html?highlight=ion#defining-the-type-of-source" target="_blank">
ion source in GATE</a>, include the lines below in your macro file. Geant4 radioactive decay uses branching ratio and decay scheme data based on the
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<a href="http://www.nucleide.org/DDEP_WG/Nuclides/Y-90_tables.pdf" target="_blank">Table of Radionuclides</a> also has clear information.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">/gate/source/NAME/gps/ion 39 90 0 0</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The fastY90 source would be appropriate for generating quantitative imaging data, i.e. an activity distribution, for convolution dosimetry with a dose kernel. However, it would not be appropriate for use with the DoseActor.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Matthew Strugari<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">PhD Candidate</span><span style="color:black"> at
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5890 University Ave, Halifax, NS, B3K 6R8</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Gate-users] Yttrium-90 Spectrum</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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