[Gate-users] Defining a pure alpha source with Gate?

[Cassandra Miller]

Hi Josh,

No I didn't! Although I don't know if that means it isn't possible, I 
didn't spend too much time looking into it because I found an alternate 
way for me to do what I needed to do. I feel like it should exist, 
although I also don't think alphas are studied too commonly using Gate.

Best,
Cassandra

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Cassandra Miller
PhD Candidate, Physics
Quantitative Radiomolecular Imaging and Therapy Lab
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia

On 2021-10-12 7:02 a.m., Josh Knowland wrote:
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> Hi Cassandra, did you ever figure out a way to define a pure alpha 
> source? I’d like to know how to do it too.
>
> Josh
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I know it is possible to define a beta/gamma source with Gate, using
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> UserSpectrum and the "/gate/source/spectrumname/gps/particle beta"
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> command, for example. Is it possible to do this with alpha particles as
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> well? There is nothing in the documentation about it, but I think Geant4
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> is capable of doing things like that, so I was wondering if there was a
>
> way..
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> Similarly, it is possible to use the "ion source" for an alpha emitting
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> isotope, but tell Gate to not simulate gammas/betas/anything besides
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> alphas?
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> Thank you!
>
> Best,
>
> Cassandra
>
> -- 
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> Cassandra Miller
>
> PhD Student, Physics
>
> Quantitative Radiomolecular Imaging and Therapy Lab
>
> Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
>
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