[Gate-users] Cold Spot Phantom

Peter Bloomfield peter.bloomfield at camhpet.ca
Wed Apr 14 20:42:36 CEST 2010


Deat Gaters,

In the previous release of openGATE I have been able to create a cold spot phantom using the following,

	/gate/world/daughters/name phantom
	/gate/world/daughters/insert cylinder
	/gate/phantom/setMaterial Water
	/gate/phantom/vis/setColor green
	/gate/phantom/geometry/setRmax   100.0 mm
	/gate/phantom/geometry/setHeight 200.0 mm
	/gate/phantom/vis/forceSolid

	/gate/phantom/daughters/name coldphantom
	/gate/phantom/daughters/insert cylinder
	/gate/coldphantom/setMaterial Water
	/gate/coldphantom/geometry/setRmax 40.0 mm
	/gate/coldphantom/geometry/setHeight 200.0 mm
	/gate/coldphantom/placement/setTranslation 0.0 0.0 0.0 mm

and then defining the source as follows
	/gate/source/addSource SourceAct
	/gate/source/SourceAct/setActivity {TOTACTIVITY} becquerel
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/particle e+
	/gate/source/SourceAct/setForcedUnstableFlag true
	/gate/source/SourceAct/setForcedHalfLife {HALFLIFE} s
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/energytype {ISOTOPE}
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/type Volume
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/shape Cylinder
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/radius 100.0 mm
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/halfz 100.0 mm
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/angtype iso
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/centre 0.0 0.0 0.0 mm
	/gate/source/SourceAct/gps/Forbid coldphantom

where {TOTACTIVITY}, {HALFLIFE} and {ISOTOPE} are passed arguments. The activity is then 'forbidden' from the coldphantom

With version gate_v6.0_p01 this setup causes a segmentation violation. If I remove reference to cooldphantom then all works 
fine. Is there something I am missing with the new version that I need to add?

I do recall an earlier email that discussed this, but I can not find it in my saved mails.

Thanks in advance,

Peter


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