[gate-users] Re: gate-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 18

[steven staelens]

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> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:47:25 +0200
> From: "Jose L. Rubio" <jlrubio at die.upm.es>
> Subject: [gate-users] Simulating Derenzo phantom with GATE
> To: gate-users at lphe1pet1.epfl.ch
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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to simulate a Derenzo phantom, with six sectors and a lot of
> cylinders in
> each of them. To avoid having to define each of the cylinders as a
> different source, I
> was planning to define a cylindrical volume for each of the sectors, use
> the 'quadrant'
> repeater to replicate it and fill the sector, and then define a bigger
> source and confine it
> inside that volume.
>
> Does it make sense? I ask this because, looking at the examples
> distributed with GATE,
> I have found a file called "Derenzo.mac" which creates a Derenzo phantom
> by defining
> a lot of spheres one-by-one.
>

Hi,

Your approach is the most elegant way and will definitly work out fine,

best regards,

Steven

Steven Staelens, Ph.D.
Ghent University
ELIS Department
Proeftuinstraat 86
B-9000 Gent
tel.  +32 9 264 66 28
fax. +32 9 264 66 18
Steven.Staelens at ugent.be





>
> So now I am not sure about my method. Will the "confine" option work
> together with the
> "repeater" of the volume? i.e., will the result be the same as having
> all the cylindrical sources
> defined one-by-one?
>
> I hope that I  have explained myself clearly :-)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jose L. Rubio
>
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