[Gate-users] Towards Gate 9.0 (Report of GATEv8.2 bugs)

Wed Feb 19 16:21:31 CET 2020

excellent, thanks to both of you!

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:23 PM 강한규 <lovehangulp at naver.com> wrote:

> Dear David, and Christian,
>
>
>
> Thanks for your kind response.
>
>
>
> For the bug#1: I uploaded an issue about the GATE bug with
> cubicArray.(issue#296)
>
>
>
> For the bug#2: Christian (included in this email) will handle the
> coincidence sorter issue wit his own pull requests (PR) on the git hub.
>
>
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> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Han Gyu
>
>
>
> --------
>
> Han Gyu Kang, Ph.D, Researcher
>
> National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS)
> National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
> (QST)
>  4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, JAPAN
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* "David Sarrut"<David.Sarrut at creatis.insa-lyon.fr>
> *To:* "강한규"<lovehangulp at naver.com>;
> *Cc:* "gate-users"<gate-users at lists.opengatecollaboration.org>;
> *Sent:* 2020-02-19 (수) 17:25:22 (GMT+09:00)
> *Subject:* Re: [Gate-users] Towards Gate 9.0 (Report of GATEv8.2 bugs)
>
> Hello 강한규,
>
> thanks very much for the very clear report!
>
> For bug#1: I am not expert in cubicArray repeater (I wrote the
> genericRepeater long time ago). We should investigate, but not sure it will
> be done for 9.0. Can you please put your email as an issue on github so
> that we keep memory of it?
>
> For bug#2: sorry, I cannot remember of the patch you mention (I probably
> forget this, my bad). Could you please provide the patch as a PR ? It will
> be included rapidly!
>
> Thanks a lot, do not hesitate to ask if need help for the PR
>
> Thank again,
> David
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:08 AM 강한규 <lovehangulp at naver.com> wrote:
>
> Dear David Sarrut,
>
>
>
> Let me share the bugs of GATEv8.2.
>
> I tried to simulate a *PEM (Positron emission mammography)* scanner with
> GATEv8.2.(slide#3-8)
>
> For the system type, "*PETscanne*r" was used because of the non-fixed
> geometry.
>
>
>
> *Bug#1: Check pattern with the cubicArray repeater.*
>
> When the back-to-back source (red) is at the center of the scanner, there
> was no problem.
>
> However, as the source was placed close to the one detector side, the
> check pattern was appeared on the detector response.(slide#10)
>
> This problem can be solved by using genericRepeater.(slide#11-12)
>
> Unfortunately, however, the coincidence sorter does not work with the
> genericRepeater.
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>
>
>
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> *Bug#2: Coincidence sorter does not work with the genericRepeater
> (slide#13-16)*
>
>          The coincidence sorter issue could be solved by using git patch
> which was proposed by Christian Pommaranz (pommranz at astro.uni-tuebingen.de
> ).
>
>          After several steps of GATE macro and source code modification,
> the PEM scanner simulation worked successfully.(slide#16)
>
>          However, for the beginners of GATE, it is going to hard to do it
> by themselves.
>
>
>
>
> Hopefully, the abovementioned bugs would be resolved in the GATEv9.0.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Han Gyu Kang, Ph.D.
>
>
>
> Imaging Physics Group, NIRS-QST, Japan.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* "David Sarrut"<David.Sarrut at creatis.insa-lyon.fr>
> *To:* "gate-users"<gate-users at lists.opengatecollaboration.org>;
> *Cc:*
> *Sent:* 2020-02-19 (수) 16:28:07 (GMT+09:00)
> *Subject:* [Gate-users] Towards Gate 9.0
>
> Dear all,
>
> We are currently preparing the next Gate release, version 9.0, based on
> the current Geant4 release 10.6. This version includes a bunch of novelties
> compared to the previous 8.2 version (hence the jump in version number).
>
> Please, if you want to include new feature or bug correction in this
> version, *submit your PullRequest (PR) asap*. We usually ask to have one
> PR with source code only in the main Gate repository, another PR with one
> example in the GateContrib repository, and some documentation changes via
> readthedocs <https://opengate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>. In any case, do
> not hesitate to contact us for any help, we are happy to help !
>
> *For all*: please we need help to perform tests. Gate is a large beast
> and we still do not have a proper unit test system (working on it). This is
> simple: download and compile the branch "develop" and test it with your own
> simulation to see if anything is fine. Please, report us is anything seems
> strange. On our side, we have some benchmarks but they do not cover all the
> parts of Gate. Continuous integration
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration> on github via
> Azure is currently being implemented (thanks to Thomas!) and will be ready
> soon.
>
> In advance, many many thanks to all recent contributors: Fatima, Anders,
> Mathieu, Thomas, David, Marta, Loic, Sam, Christian, Mateuz etc ... I am
> sure I forget people, sorry ... I will properly update the list of
> contributors in the following weeks :)
>
> The ETA for the next release is early March.
>
> David
>
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CREATIS, UMR CNRS 5220, Inserm U1206
Centre de lutte contre le cancer Léon Bérard
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