[Castor-users] castor-GATErootToCastor error message

[Dimitrios Thanasas]

Dear Konstantinos,

Thank you very much, it worked. I had also to use sp_bins to declare the
number of bins at each axis.

Regards,
Dimitris

> Hi there,
> Sorry to interfere.! Your command seems a bit wrong. You should not use
> ".geom" in the command line. The command line should be:
>
> castor-GATERootToCastor -i gamma2.root -o gamma2 -m gamma2.mac -s gamma2
>
> Regards,
> Konstantinos
>
> ---
> -------------------------
> Konstantinos Chatzipapas
> Medical Physicist, Ph.D.
> University of Patras
>
>
> Στις 15-12-2021 15:06, Dimitrios Thanasas έγραψε:
>> Dear Thibaut,
>>
>> Thank you for your answer. I tried to use castor-GATErootToCastor to
>> convert root file from GATE to castor datafile format automatically but
>> the gamma2.geom file is not recognized. I tried to use
>> SPECT_CASTOR_BENCHMARK.geom file but I got the same error message.
>> I write something wrong in the command? Or it is a bug?
>> "castor-GATERootToCastor -i gamma2.root -o gamma2.out -m gamma2.mac -s
>> gamma2.geom"
>> Moreover, GATE output files can be root files, ASCII files or sinograms
>> with many parameters written in them.
>> In CASTOR user guide is written that: "SPECT datafiles can hold
>> histogram
>> or list-mode data with associated corrections (the latter is not yet
>> supported)."
>> So I need to convert a GATE output to a binary CASTOR datafile.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Dimitris Thanasas
>>
>>
>>> Dear Dimitrios,
>>>
>>> Could you check if in the datafile, the system alias ("Scanner name")
>>> already has a ".geom" extension ? Normally it should just be the
>>> system
>>> name, as in:
>>>
>>> /Scanner name: gamma2/
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Thibaut
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/12/2021 13:42, Dimitrios Thanasas wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I try to use CASTOR (v.3.1.1) on a root output file from a GATE
>>>> simulated
>>>> SPECT camera.
>>>> Firstly I used castor-GATEMacToGeom to create the .geom file of the
>>>> Camera.
>>>> Then I tried to use castor-GATErootToCastor to convert the root
>>>> output
>>>> file to a CASTOR datafile but I get the error message:
>>>> ***** sScannerManager::FindScannerSystem() -> Scanner 'gamma2.geom'
>>>> is
>>>> not
>>>> known in the scanner repository. Please provide a LUT/generic file
>>>> for
>>>> this scanner in the scanner repository in:
>>>> /home/gate/Simulations-Reconstructions/castor_v3.1.1/config/scanner/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is the list of all available scanners in the repository along
>>>> with
>>>> their options:
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> -----  "gamma2.geom"
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> SPECT camera extracted from GATE macro: gamma2.mac
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> It says that "Scanner 'gamma2.geom' is not known in the scanner
>>>> repository" but as you can see, there is the file "gamma2.geom" in
>>>> /config/scanner folder.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know why I get this error?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>> Dimitris Thanasas
>>>>
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>>>
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>>> l'Information
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