[Gate-users] Dose from Characteristic x-rays

[Andreas Resch]

Am 2017-03-22 13:51, schrieb Eslam Taha:
> Greetings All
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to calculate the dose resulting only
> from characteristic x-rays within a phantom. I tried using an energy
> filter but it seems the filter takes into account any secondaries
> produced within the phantom and filters only primaries that don't
> match the threshold
> 
> My regards
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Hi,
could a particle filter help you? You should check how Geant4 labels 
x-rays, I would guess "gamma".
There was a bug fix in the particle filter a few days ago. So better 
check out the develop branch on github...

cheers,
andreas
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ANDREAS RESCH, M.SC.
PhD student, Medical Physics

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
Department of Radiotherapy
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Medical Radiation Physics for Radiation
Oncology
Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Wien
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