[Gate-users] GATE Actor dose

[David Sarrut]

Hello Sujin,

the doseActor is attached to the "hof_brain" volume, should it be attached
to the moving "waterCylinder" instead ? Does the "hof_brain" volume move
also ?

David

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 06:22, Sujin Lee <su.jin.lee.888 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear, David Sarrut
>
>
> Hello, My name is Sujin. I'm a graduate student from department of
> radiological science at Korea University in korea. I've read your lecture
> (GATE-RT Applications in Radiation Therapy)
> The reason why I am sending you this e-mail is...
>
> I would like to do X-ray CT dosimetry, appliying MOBY phantom to GATE(ver
> 6.0).
> Actually, I'm trying to apply MOBY phantom to GATE now.
>
> And I am not getting any CT dose using DoseActor while moving moby mouse
> phantom.(no problem of getting dose when the phantom is not moving)
> how can I solve this problem?
>
> I would like to get integral dose after whole rotation.
> I would  sincerely appreciate your help.
>
> I'm using dose actors with the following commands
>
> /gate/waterCylinder/moves/insert rotation
> /gate/waterCylinder/rotation/setSpeed 1 deg/s
> /gate/waterCylinder/rotation/setAxis 0 0 1
>
>  /gate/actor/addActor                               DoseActor
> doseDistribution
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/save                  output/config-18MeV.txt
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/attachTo              hof_brain
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/stepHitType           random
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/setPosition           0 0 0 cm
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/setSize               37.12  37.12  34.8 mm
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/setVoxelSize          0.29    0.29   0.29 mm
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/saveEveryNSeconds     600
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/enableEdep            true
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/enableUncertaintyEdep false
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/enableDose            true
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/enableUncertaintyDose true
> /gate/actor/doseDistribution/enableNumberOfHits    false
>
> /gate/actor/addActor               SimulationStatisticActor stat
> /gate/actor/stat/save              output/stat-18MeV.txt
> /gate/actor/stat/saveEveryNSeconds 600
>
> I know you might be busy, but I really hope you. Please...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Sujin Lee
>



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