[Gate-users] Rotation of a gps source

[Ida Häggström]

Thank you all for your replies!
I guess I'll have to update to v.6.1 to implement this or use a voxellized
source then...
Thanks again!
Ida

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Didier Benoit <benoit at imnc.in2p3.fr> wrote:

> Hi Ida,
>
> In Gate v5.0 you can't rotate a source. In Gate v6.1 we have implemented
> the two lines:
> /gate/source/[source name]/setRotationAxis 1 0 0
> /gate/source/[source name]/setRotationAngle 90 deg
>
> In Gate v5.0, I computed at each time and for each run the position of
> the source in the space. Unfortunately Geant4 doesn't provide a rotation
> of the source too.
>
> King regards,
> Didier Benoit
>
> On 12/16/2011 03:55 PM, Ida Häggström wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I wonder if anyone has a way of rotating a source in GATE v.5.0? It's
> easy
> > to rotate a volume, for example a cylinder like:
> >
> > /gate/phantom/placement/setRotationAxis -1 1 0
> > /gate/phantom/placement/setRotationAngle 30 deg
> >
> > but I cannot find any equivalent for rotation of the source as well to
> > coincide with the tilted phantom. My source is a cylinder like:
> >
> > /gate/source/twogamma/gps/type Volume
> > /gate/source/twogamma/gps/shape Cylinder
> > /gate/source/twogamma/gps/radius 10 mm
> > /gate/source/twogamma/gps/halfz 110 mm
> > /gate/source/twogamma/gps/centre 100. 100. 0. mm
> >
> > and I then want to rotate this cylinder source as well. I've found on the
> > GATE wiki v.6.1 that you can write:
> >
> > /gate/source/ [Source name] /setRotationAxis 1 0 0
> > /gate/source/ [Source name] /setRotationAngle 90 deg
> >
> > but that doesn't seem to work in v.5.0. I haven't found anything useful
> in
> > the GEANT4 forum either...
> >
> > Thanks for any input!
> > Ida
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