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Dear Castor users and developers,
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<div>I'm trying to reconstruct the data coming from a scanner I
simulated with gate (MyScanner.mac). </div>
<div>When I use the castor-GATEMacToGeom the conversion goes fine
but I think there is something strange in the converted .geom file
(Myscanner.geom):</div>
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<div>1) The .geom file generated by the utility contains the
following lines</div>
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<p class="gmail-m_-8092076495502286594gmail-p1"><span
class="gmail-m_-8092076495502286594gmail-s1">layers size
depth : 12</span></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-8092076495502286594gmail-p1">layers size
transaxial : 1.6</p>
<p class="gmail-m_-8092076495502286594gmail-p1">layers size axial
: 1.6</p>
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<div>I think that they should be like this:</div>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">crystals size depth
: 12</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">crystals size trans
: 1.6</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">crystals size axial
: 1.6</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">2) <font face="Menlo">In
the .mac file I provided you, the original rsector offset is
61.4 mm from the center of the FOV.</font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">/gate/rsector/placement/setTranslation
61.4 mm </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span
style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;font-family:Menlo">In
the .geom file the scanner radius is reported as</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span
style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;font-family:Menlo">scanner
radius : 61.4 </span></p>
<div>However, If I understood correctly, the scanner radius should
be </div>
<div>61.4- crystals size depth/2.0. <br>
</div>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">3) I noticed that the
utility doesn't support the </span><span
style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;font-family:Menlo">/control/alias
statement of GATE is there any plan to implement it? </span><br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">4) Minor thing: </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1">When I run the GATERootToCastor utily </p>
<p class="gmail-p1">
</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">./castor-GATERootToCastor -i
~/prova_nick/PointSource_X0_Y0_Z0.root -m
~/MyScanner/MyScanner/example_castor.mac -o ./test-output -s
MyScanner<br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1">I got this error <br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">0 :
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/example_castor.mac</p>
<p class="gmail-p1">1 :
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner//home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner_geometry_castor.mac</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">2 :
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner//home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner/NEMACubePhantom.mac</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">3 :
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner//home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner/NEMACubeSource.mac</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">4 :
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner//home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner_digitizer.mac</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">5 :
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner//home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner_physics_castor.mac</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">***** GetGATESystemType()
-> Error : Couldn't open mac file
/home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner//home/nick/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner/MyScanner_geometry_castor.mac
!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">*****
castor-GATERootToCastor :: GATE system type not found : </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">
This script only supports conversion for cylindricalPET and
ecat systems</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">
The system type is recovered from the lines
'/gate/systems/...'</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">***** Exit function
called. Abort with code 1.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">I think that this is due
to the path of the file </span>~/MyScanner/MyScanner/example_castor.mac
begin process in a wrong way.</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><br>
</p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Thank you for your
support and best regards</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Niccolo' Camarlinghi <br>
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