FW: [Gate-users] Problem: simulation stopped before end of acquisition time was reached

[Wencke Lehnert]

Dear GATE users,

 

Thanks for your responses so far!

 

I did look at the root output file, and the histograms of "time" from
the coincidences shows that the acquisition time was 108s which is the
same as what I got from the ASCII output. I am also attaching all of my
macros used for this particular simulation this time. Everything runs by
calling the macro Main_Wencke.mac. Maybe that could help someone to
figure out what is going wrong with my simulation.

 

Thank you!

 

Wencke

 

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From: gate-users-bounces at lists.healthgrid.org
[mailto:gate-users-bounces at lists.healthgrid.org] On Behalf Of Wencke
Lehnert
Sent: Monday, 7 January 2008 2:25 PM
To: gate-users at lists.healthgrid.org
Subject: [Gate-users] Problem: simulation stopped before end of
acquisitiontime was reached

 

Dear GATE users,

 

I have been running a GATE simulation for a PET acquisition. It was
supposed to be an acquisition of 240s, but looking at the time mark of
the last event and the total number of decays in the gateRun.dat file it
was only running for 108s. I didn't get an error message or anything,
the end of the simulation looked normal. I had most of the outputs
disabled except for the coincidences flag for the ASCII and root output.
The file size for the ASCII coincidence file was 234MB, the root output
file was 55MB. I didn't change any settings for data output like max.
file sizes or anything. I have attached my output-start macro (one of
the macros called from my main macro). 

 

Can anyone help? Please let me know if you need any additional
information!

 

Thank you!


Wencke

 

Wencke Lehnert, MSc

Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences

and

Ramaciotti Centre for Brain Imaging

Brain & Mind Research Institute

University of Sydney

100 Mallett St

Camperdown NSW 2050

Australia

Phone: +61 2 9351 0622

Fax: +61 2 9351 0852

 

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