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<div><span style="background-color:white;"><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Dear Gate users,</span></font></span>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I am trying to simulate the production of positrons in a PMMA phantom when irradiated with a proton beam and use that information to obtain a simulated PET image.
For this, I am running two separate simulations. In the 1</span></font><font size="-1" color="black"><sup>st</sup></font><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">, I save the positron production in a .root file, using the PhaseSpaceActor.
In the 2</span></font><font size="-1" color="black"><sup>nd</sup></font><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">, I use the PhaseSpace .root file as a source for the PET simulation and save the PET data in a .root file. However, I obtain
the majority of positrons in the phantom contour (is this because the PhaseSpaceActor only stores the particles entering and exiting the volumes?).
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Besides, I also tried to use the ProductionAndStoppingActor to obtain the positron map. However, I was not able to use the .mhd image as a source in the PET simulation.
I already tried to search in the Gate users archive and did not find anything. </span>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:white;">Thank you in advance,</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:white;"><font size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Catarina Magalhães.</span></font></span></div>
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