[gate-users] How to input a history file

[Schmidtlein, Ross/Sloan-Kettering Institute]

Hi Mikhail and Seb,

I was speaking to several people from the University of Washington and they are also interested in this sort of option.  I agree that the Hits file may be a good place to start but from what I understand DigiGATE doesn't really do any particle transport.  To my mind we need to have a method to store information in a "hits" type format at a specified boundary crossing location and then import this information back to the particle gun.  In this manner, a standard input interface could be defined and tested.  Other MC programs output could then be translated into this format and input into Gate.  Does anyone have any additional thoughts on this?

Cheers,

ross

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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [gate-users] How to input a history file


Hi Mikhail,

It is a very nice idea and we could imagine to include this development 
for a future release of GATE.
I think that you can start from the developments which done for the 
digiGate simulation where the hit collection is stored in a first 
simulation and injected with different digitizer chain for each new run.

cheers
seb


Mikhail Shilov a écrit:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am looking for a way to use a photon history file generated by 
> anther MonterCarlo simulation with Gate in SPECT. In other words I'm 
> trying to make Gate use predefined initial photon locations and 
> direction rather than randomly generated ones in the defined sources. 
> I think it shouldn't be so hard to implement. If anyone has an idea 
> where to start with this please let me know. Thanks
> 
> -
> 
> Mikhail A. Shilov
> The Johns Hopkins University
> Department of Radiology
> Division of Medical Imaging Physics
> Tel:  443-287-7315
> Fax:  410-614-1977
> mailto: mshilov1 at jhmi.edu
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