[Gate-users] ASCII Singles file is empty when I use opticaladder digitizer

Vesna Cuplov vesna.cuplov at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 15:00:48 CET 2012


Hi,

If you are trying to detect Optical photons generated
from scintillating crystal, you migh need to add:

/gate/physics/addProcess Scintillation

otherwise you won't generate any Optical Photons.

vesna



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:52 AM, open researcher <
openresearcher90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> my simulations contains detection of optical photons.
> when I use /gate/digitizer/Singles/insert opticaladder, my ascii Singles
> file is empty. But when I comment the command, ascii single file has the
> recordings (is that mean optical photons are not generated ?).
> I have set export GATE_USE_OPTICAL = 1 on. (When I source the env_gate.sh
> I even get the message 'Transport and generation of optical photons is
> enabled')
> My materials.xml has properties of LSO and NaI, I tried with both crystals
> but didn't work out.
> Any help ?
> thanks in advance
>
>
>
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