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Getting started

  • How to: Installation
  • The Motivation Behind GATE 10

How to setup a simulation

  • Set up a first simulation
  • How to: Geometry and volumes
  • How to: Physics
  • How to: Sources
  • How to: Actors and Filters
  • Teaching Resources and Examples

Detailed description of components

  • Details: Simulation object
  • Details: Volumes
  • Details: Actors
  • Details: Sources
    • Common parameters
    • Generic source
    • Voxelized source
    • Ion Pencil Beam Source
    • Treatment Plan Pencil Beam source
    • GAN sources (Generative Adversarial Network)
    • PHID source (Photon from Ion Decay)
  • Details: Physics
  • Details: Optical photons
  • Details: Volume and source voxelization
  • Details: Attenuation image

Preconfigured complex components

  • Contributions
  • Dose rate computation
  • Phantoms
  • Radiation therapy linac
  • SPECT imaging systems
  • PET imaging systems

How to migrate from GATE 9 to 10

  • From GATE 9 to 10: Intro
  • From GATE 9 to 10 - Example Proton CT
  • From GATE 9 to 10 - Example Optical Physics

Command line tools

  • Additional Functionalities
  • User Guide
  • Details: Sources

Details: Sources#

  • Common parameters
    • Coordinate system
    • Reference
  • Generic source
    • Description
    • Particle type
    • Particle initial position
    • Particle initial direction
    • Acceptance Angle
    • Half-life
    • Time Activity Curves (TAC)
    • Energy
    • Confined source
    • Reference
  • Voxelized source
    • Description
    • Reference
  • Ion Pencil Beam Source
    • Description
    • Reference
  • Treatment Plan Pencil Beam source
    • Description
    • Additional functionality
    • Reference
  • GAN sources (Generative Adversarial Network)
    • Description
    • Reference
  • PHID source (Photon from Ion Decay)
    • Description
    • Command line tools
    • Reference

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