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<div dir="auto">Yes likely multiple problems.</div>
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<div dir="auto">You should provide details about your detector in order to be able to understand the choice of some parameters.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Why 64 itérations with 128 subsets ?! A rule of thumb without TOF would be to have a maximum number of subsets equal to the number of crystals in a ring divided by 16 to 20. Then, without any post-smoothing or regularization, aim for a maximum
of 50 to 100 updates (i.e. iterations x subsets). For your first reconstructions, consider including a post-smoothing.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Voxels of 1mm^3 ? Is you scanner for small animals ? Otherwise, for a first reconstruction, aim for voxels with their side equal to the crystal width.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Finally, in a second step, you should consider including a normalization correction. There are already many discussions about that in the forum.</div>
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<div dir="auto">For your first reconstructions with Gate simulated data, I would also recommend to include only true coincidences.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Best</div>
<div dir="auto">Simon</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Le 12 avr. 2024 21:02, Dimitrios Thanasas <dthanas@uoa.gr> a écrit :<br type="attribution">
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I simulate a simple PET ECAT system using GATE (V8.2 - I couldn't install<br>
CASTOR on version 9 or later).<br>
I simulated an orthogonal parallelepiped source (xlength:5 mm, ylength:1<br>
mm, zlength:10 mm).<br>
According to the guidelines, I have used castor-GATEMacToGeom to generate<br>
the geom file and castor-GATERootToCastor to create the Cdh and Cdf files.<br>
Then I ran the command<br>
castor-recon -df ecat_df.Cdh -opti MLEM -it 64:128 -dim 64.,64.,64. -vox<br>
1.,1.,1. -dout myimages1<br>
after the termination of the reconstruction I get the attached image.<br>
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I see something like circles in transverse1 plane instead of a orthogonal<br>
plane as I am expected. In coronal1 and sagital1 planes look like a slice<br>
to appear as I am expected but I think the images have few points. My GATE<br>
output root file includes 862000 coincidences.<br>
Is there something wrong with the reconstruction?<br>
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Any help will be appreciated,<br>
Best regards,<br>
Dimitris</div>
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