[Castor-users] SPECT reading Interfile

Simon Stute simon.stute at cea.fr
Tue Apr 18 17:26:33 CEST 2017


Hello,

The castor configuration folder also contains other configuration files, 
so it is not only related to the scanner geometries.

However, a third possibility is to copy the whole 'config' folder (it is 
light) into your working directory, put your geom files inside the 
'scanner' sub-folder and then you can use the '-conf 
./your_config_folder' option to overload the path of the configuration 
directory at run-time.

The '-conf' option is described when calling 'castor-recon -help-misc'.

Regards
Simon


Le 18/04/2017 à 17:13, Didier Benoit a écrit :
> In our software, we didn't plan to read the .geom files in 2 or more 
> folders. I think you have 2 solutions :
>
> 1- You can copy all your .geom files for each different kind of 
> scanners in the CASTOR_CONFIG folder
>
> 2- Or creating a "castor_test" folder, where you write all your .geom 
> files (and the .geom files provided by CASToR) and set CASTOR_CONFIG 
> to the location of "castor_test" during the installation.
>
> Kind regards,
> Didier
>
>
> On 04/18/2017 04:36 PM, Michael Ljungberg wrote:
>>
>> Sorry Didier
>>
>> I meant the CASTOR_CONFIG folder. That was my question - if it would 
>> be possible for your software to search first in the local directory 
>> for a scanner name before looking in the CASTOR_CONFIG folder. 
>> Sometimes one do simulations as function of different camera 
>> geometries and I can then imagine I would need one .geom file for 
>> each of them. If the search for the scanner name is first made in the 
>> local directory and then in the CASTOR_CONFIG folder then these local 
>> .geom files could be isolated from the more permanent scanner system 
>> files, stored in the CASTOR_CONFIG folder.
>>
>> Hälsningar / Best regards
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> *From: *Didier Benoit <didier.benoit at inserm.fr>
>> *Date: *Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 16:07
>> *To: *Michael Ljungberg <michael.ljungberg at med.lu.se>, 
>> "castor-users at lists.castor-project.org" 
>> <castor-users at lists.castor-project.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Castor-users] SPECT reading Interfile
>>
>> With a time value set to 0, the SPECT reconstruction should work.
>>
>> In your second question, what do you exactly mean by "SYSTEM 
>> location" ? I'm not sure to understand. Is it your scanner system 
>> location defined by "CASTOR_CONFIG" during the compilation ? If it's 
>> the case you can't add a path in the Cdf file for the tag " Scanner 
>> name". If you want to create a custom scanner file you have to save 
>> it in the "CASTOR_CONFIG" directory.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Didier
>>
>>
>> On 04/18/2017 03:26 PM, Michael Ljungberg wrote:
>>
>>     Dear Didier
>>
>>     Thank you for your explanation. I think it will not be a major
>>     problem to implement. For SPECT reconstructions, does the Time
>>     value be clearly defined?
>>
>>     Another related question regards the files for the system. I
>>     wonder if it would be possible to allow castor-recon program to
>>     first look in the local folder for a geometry file before looking
>>     in the standard SYSTEM location? If I implement direct writing to
>>     the caster format in the simind program, I can foresee that the
>>     SYSTEM folder can be quickly filled with files.  Alternatively,
>>     is it possible to add a path to the system name in the cdh file?
>>
>>     Hälsningar / Best regards
>>
>>     Michael
>>
>>     *From: *Castor-users
>>     <castor-users-bounces at lists.castor-project.org>
>>     <mailto:castor-users-bounces at lists.castor-project.org> on behalf
>>     of Didier Benoit <didier.benoit at inserm.fr>
>>     <mailto:didier.benoit at inserm.fr>
>>     *Date: *Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 14:52
>>     *To: *"castor-users at lists.castor-project.org"
>>     <mailto:castor-users at lists.castor-project.org>
>>     <castor-users at lists.castor-project.org>
>>     <mailto:castor-users at lists.castor-project.org>
>>     *Subject: *Re: [Castor-users] SPECT reading Interfile
>>
>>     Dear Michael,
>>
>>     Thanks for your interest. Interfile format is only used as
>>     input/output format for image (not projection data). As you have
>>     seen, input data for SPECT (and also for PET) is composed of 2
>>     files: a header file (*.Cdh) and a binary file (*.Cdf) storing
>>     the data from a machine or a Monte Carlo simulation. Here is some
>>     information about this Cdf file. This file is not a pure
>>     histogram (a successive number of counts by bin). The Data should
>>     (must) be arrange as described in the “CASToR general
>>     documentation” page 30.
>>
>>     For instance, in the case of a 64x64 float matrix for 64 angles
>>     (and I consider you don't have both normalization and scatter
>>     informations), your Cdf file should contain 262 144 events
>>     (64x64x64) with the following format:
>>
>>     EVENT 0:
>>     time: 0 (uint32_t)
>>     data: 32 (float/double) it's your data for a specific bin
>>     projection ID: 0 (uint32_t) it's the angle ID between 0 and 63 in
>>     this example
>>     binID: 0 (uint32_t) it's the bin ID between 0 and (64x64 – 1) in
>>     this example
>>
>>     We don't provide a SPECT/PET data converter, but the easiest way
>>     to create a correct Cdf file (I consider you are using C/C++) is
>>     to create a struct like this:
>>
>>     struct SPECT_CASTOR_EVENT_FORMAT {
>>        uint32_t     time;
>>        float          data;
>>        uint32_t    projectionID;
>>        uint32_t    binID;
>>     };
>>
>>     and store each bin from your data in the CASToR event format.
>>
>>     Kind Regards,
>>     Didier Benoit
>>
>>
>>     On 04/14/2017 05:34 PM, Michael Ljungberg wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Castor developers
>>
>>         I ran into this release a week ago and it is really a nice
>>         contribution you have made. I have been working with Monte
>>         Carlo simulations for many years developing the program
>>         simind and often I get this question of supplying
>>         reconstruction software since simind only produce
>>         projections. So being able to direct to your webpage would be
>>         natural.
>>
>>         However, I dont understand how to read data into
>>         castor-recon. I also use Interfile and float values so when
>>         reading in the manual at you are using interfile for both
>>         input data and output gave me confidence for a smooth
>>         connection. But I dont see how to actual do this. I checked
>>         the spect benchmark file but the cdh format is different. So
>>         my question is how I can read in for example a 64x64 float
>>         matrices for 64 angles stored in a data file and with an
>>         associated interfile header file.
>>
>>         Hälsningar / Best regards
>>
>>         Michael Ljungberg
>>
>>         Lund University
>>
>>         Sweden
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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