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[Claude Comtat]

Kris Thielemans wrote:

> 
> 
>>>4) you can use the CylindricalPET system with an LMF 
>>>
>>output, and use 
>>
>>>stir to convert it into sinogram. However, I do not know if the 
>>>current version of LMF can handle the Advance geometry.
>>>
> 
> The existing STIR code to read LMF and convert it into sinograms is not
> yet public domain. This version would not handle Advance/Discovery data
> anyway. The STIR code that has been sent around would be able to output
> an interfile sinogram with the same conventions as used for the
> Advance/Discovery, but not in VOLPET format (but Interfile). That would
> of course be ok for STIR, but not for GE programs.
> 

Actually, I meant to use the LMF format in order to use the stir library 
to do the rebinning (interfile sinogram) and the reconstruction, but not 
to rebin in the Advance native format. Will the STIR code handling LMF 
be available soon ?

Rgds,

Claude

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