[Gate-users] ion source

[Marc Chamberland]

Hi Sam!

As far as I know, the ion source realistically models radioactive decay. So this includes all x-rays, gammas, positron emission, etc. I believe this is all handled by Geant4 and not explicitly by Gate.

In fact, when you installed Geant4 before installing Gate, you had to include all the extra data files for Geant4. Among these data files were the radioactive decay and the low-energy electromagnetic data files for every element and isotope up to Z = 100, I believe.

You may want to look at the Geant4 documentation for more info on this.

I hope this helps!
Marc



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Marc Chamberland, MSc
PhD candidate
Department of Physics
Carleton University
Ottawa (ON)

Le 2012-08-29 à 2:07 PM, "Lee, Sam (SAM LEE)" <slee91 at utk.edu>
 a écrit :

> Hey guys,
> 
> I have a question about ion source in Gate.
> 
> If I tell gate to use ion source, what kinda energy spectrum does it use? Does it specify all x-ray, gamma, position emission?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sanghyeb(Sam) Lee
> 
> PhD Candidate
> Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville
> Personal webpage: www.sergeantlee.com
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