[Castor-users] Potential issue in GATERootToCastor

[tmerlin]

Hello Moritz,

Thank you for the feedback and suggestion and sorry for the delayed 
answer. There is a patch on the way so we will fix this soon.

Best,
Thibaut


On 30/09/2020 11:10, Moritz Schaar wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I played around with castor's utility for conversion of ROOT data from 
> GATE and noticed that the conversion fails, if you only have one 
> crystal layer and do not explicitly attach the crystals to layer0 in GATE.
>
> This can be validated by performing the "benchPET" from the official 
> GATE repository 
> (https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/blob/develop/benchmarks/benchPET)
>
> By default, two layers are attached (see camera.mac):
>
> /gate/systems/cylindricalPET/layer0/attach LSO
>
> /gate/systems/cylindricalPET/layer1/attach BGO
>
> Commenting out both lines from above results in layer IDs equal to 
> "-1" (default value?).
>
> This may be the case if you do not explicitly state that you have only 
> one layer.
>
> A simple workaround for “castor-GATERootToCastor” could be testing the 
> values for meaningful ranges, e.g. values layerID>= 0, or even simpler 
> just checking that the castorID1 and castorID2 are < nCrystalsTot and 
> otherwise at least trigger a warning.
>
> Best,
>
> Moritz
>
>
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