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[Mutanga Theodore]

Hi Corinne,
I am not answering your question but asking for some help with other GATE
tutorials, I would be grateful if you can give me as much examples to play
around with. I am to develop a tool to simulate PET images using Monte
Carlo, so I need alot of help with that from you guys who have already
been using GATE. Can someone help me with any information on that ?
Also how can I check the integrity of my GATE installation, to make sure
the date and stuff are correct ?


Regards

Mutanga Theodore.





> Hi all,
>
> I know the question has already been asked but I can't find the answer
> in GATE-Talk, so I ask it again... O:-)
> I simulated 6 hot spheres (R=1cm) in a warm cylinder (D=20cm, H=70cm). I
> want a contrast of 5:1. So I did the following to define the activity I
> wanted in each of the volumes:
> for the cylinder: 214.6MBq
> for each sphere: (5-1)x(214.6MBq/(pix10x10x70))x(4xpix1x1x1/3), eg.
> (5-1)x(Cylinder Activity / Cylinder Volume) x (Sphere Volume)
> I used (5-1) and not 5 assuming there will be the annihilations from the
> cylinder AND from the spheres at the sphere location.
>
> The problem is that I can't recover that contrast in the reconstructed
> data. Can someone tell me if I did something wrong in the activity
> setting?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> -- Corinne
>
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>
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