[Gate-users] inhomogeneous activity distribution in several outputfiles

[Simon Stute]

Hey,

Didi you use backtoback sources ?
Which version of Gate do you use ?
It could be a problem with a non-initialized value in the code, concerning
the non-collinearity flag when using backtoback sources.
I encountered such a bug before, and it seemed to be fixed once I forced
acolinearity to be true or false (whatever you want, it is just that this
flag has no default value in the source code, and thus if the flag "decided"
to be true, a non-initialized acolinearity angle is also used ... thus
giving funny thing ...).

Hope this helps,
Simon

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Hans-Martin Schwab <
hans-martin.schwab at web.de> wrote:

>   Hello everybody,
>   for my recent simulations I wrote a script in Root that creates a
>   threedimensional .raw-file storing the activity distribution as derived
>   from the sourcePos information in the coincidence dataset. Observing
>   that raw-file one can see irregularities in the source-distribution
>   that can even be recognized in the reconstructed image of the
>   simulation data. There are several artifacts, that become visible. For
>   some phantoms a area of a higher number of counts is noticable in the
>   x-z-plane, although a homogeneous distribution is expected. Other
>   images show hot planes orientated diagonally across each subvolume. Of
>   course the data stored in the sourcePos dataset does not yet contain
>   corrections of sensitivity and scatter, but the shape of these areas
>   with more counts can not be explained by those issues. What
>   is surprising, is that when I run the same script for several times
>   (where only the output name distiguishes) these irregularaties
>   sometimes occur and sometimes not. Does anybody have an idea about
>   that? We suppose the random generator to play a role in this (in the
>   macros the Ranlux64 is used), but still we canA't really find a
>   consistent idea of what might cause those artifacts.
>   Best regards,
>   Hans
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