[gate-users] voxelized phantoms Gate 1.2

[Mutanga Theodore]

I just halted the simulation i mentioned in the previous post, there are
thousands of lines of the message pasted below.. i have no idea what is
happening :

´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextRun
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextRun : m_time      (s) 0.000e+00
                                  m_timeClock (s) 0.000e+00
                                  timeSlice   (s) 1.000e+00
                                  m_timeLimit (s) 1.000e+00
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : GetNextSource()
GateSourceMgr::GetNextSource : source voxel_brain    Next time (s) :
2.214e-07   m_firstTime (s) : -1.000e-09
GateSourceMgr::GetNextSource : source chosen : voxel_brain
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent :  m_time (s) 2.214e-07  m_timeLimit (s)
1.000e+00
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : source selected <voxel_brain>
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : numVertices : 1
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : GetNextSource()
GateSourceMgr::GetNextSource : source voxel_brain    Next time (s) :
1.027e-08   m_firstTime (s) : -1.000e-09
GateSourceMgr::GetNextSource : source chosen : voxel_brain
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent :  m_time (s) 2.317e-07  m_timeLimit (s)
1.000e+00
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : source selected <voxel_brain>
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : numVertices : 1
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : GetNextSource()
GateSourceMgr::GetNextSource : source voxel_brain    Next time (s) :
2.27340913e-08   m_firstTime (s) : -1.00000000e-09
GateSourceMgr::GetNextSource : source chosen : voxel_brain
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent :  m_time (s) 2.54420844e-07  m_timeLimit
(s) 1.00000000e+00
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : source selected <voxel_brain>
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent : numVertices : 1
GateSourceMgr::PrepareNextEvent


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Can someone in the GATe team comment on this ?

Thanks

Theo




> Greetings all,
>
> I have been puzzled by the behaviour of gate for the past couple of days
> now and I would like to have some help from anyone with simillar
> experiences or someone who has an idea.
>
> I am using Gate 2.1 with all configurations as shown on the site.
>
> I have created my phantom from CT image slices using PMOD and Xmedcon for
> conversion into interfile. The image data is unsigned integer and I have
> verified this by dumping the pixels to screen.
>
> Now I run a complete benchmark test with PET benchmark and it goes without
> any problems in about 6 hours and the results are ok.
>
> I then modify the same benchmark macro with wth my own camera, and phantom
> modules. I use also a modified version of the Voxelized sources and
> Voxelized phantom macros to test my simulation.
>
> What is puzzling is that there are no errors in the output but the
> simulation seems to hand just after the part where range cuts are
> calculated ....the last  line is the line with -------default region of
> the world------
>
> I constantly check the root file size during the simulation but it doesn't
> change in size. I have used a total or 15 MBq for a total of 2550760
> voxels.  and I am just testing for a 5 seconds run. (start - stop = 5s)
>
>
> Is anyone running voxelized sources and phantoms with this version ? Could
> I please have some macros and sample interfile phantoms to test and
> compare with mine ?
>
> I don't have any idea why the simulation is not working as everything is
> ok and no error messages are presented.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Greetings
>
>
>
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