User Guide

Getting started

• How to: Installation
• The Motivation Behind GATE 10
  • Background
  • As Time Goes By
  • Towards New Frontiers

How to setup a simulation

• Set up a first simulation
  • The Simulation object
  • Components of a simulation
  • Units
  • References
• How to: Geometry and volumes
  • Create a volume
  • Set the parameters of a volume
  • Examples of volumes
  • Volume hierarchy
  • Utility properties
  • Materials
  • Parallel worlds
  • Volume voxelization
  • Examples of complex geometries: Linac, SPECT, PET, phantoms
• How to: Physics
  • Physics List and Decay
  • Radioactive Decay
  • Electromagnetic Parameters
  • Production cuts
  • Limit the step size
• How to: Sources
  • How to add a source
  • How to set the number of primaries
  • How to position the source in space
• How to: Actors and Filters
  • Introduction
  • Attach the actor to a volume
  • Actor output
  • References
• Teaching Resources and Examples

Detailed description of components

• Details: Simulation object
  • Random Number Generator
  • Run and timing
  • Verbosity
  • Visualisation
    • VRML
    • GDML
  • Multithreading
  • Multiprocessing (advanced use)
  • User hooks
• Details: Volumes
  • Common parameters
  • Image volume
    • Description
    • Reference
  • CSG Volumes
    • Description
    • Reference
  • Tesselated (STL) volumes
    • Description
    • Reference
  • Repeated volumes
    • Description
    • Reference
  • Repeat Parametrised Volumes
    • Reference
  • Boolean volumes
    • Description
    • Reference
• Details: Actors
  • Overview: Types of actors
    • Hits-related actors (digitizers)
  • SimulationStatisticsActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • KillActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DoseActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • LETActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • REActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • RBEActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • FluenceActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • TLEDoseActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • VoxelDepositActor
  • PhaseSpaceActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerHitsCollectionActor
    • Reference
  • DigitizerAdderActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerReadoutActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerBlurringActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerSpatialBlurringActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerEnergyWindowsActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerProjectionActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • DigitizerEfficiencyActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • Coincidences Sorter
  • ARFActor and ARFTrainingDatasetActor
    • Description
    • Step 1: Creating the Training Dataset
    • Step 2: Training the ARF Model
    • Step 3: Using the Trained ARF Model in Simulation
    • Reference
  • LETActor
  • BremSplittingActor
    • Description
    • Reference
  • ComptonSplittingActor
    • Description
    • Reference
• Details: Sources
  • Common parameters
    • Coordinate system
    • Reference
  • Generic source
    • Description
    • Particle type
    • Particle initial position
    • Particle initial direction
    • Polarization
    • 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
  • Phase Space Source
    • Description
    • Reference
• Details: Physics
  • Physics lists
  • Radioactive Decay
  • Production cuts
  • User limits
  • Acollinearity of Annihilation Photons (APA)
    • Ion or e+ source
    • Back-to-back source
  • Material Ionisation Potential
• Details: Optical photons
  • Optical Photon Generation
  • Optical photon physics
  • Defining material properties
  • Scintillation
  • Cerenkov photons
  • Absorption
  • Mie Scattering
  • Rayleigh Scattering
  • Fluorescence / Wavelength shifting (WLS)
  • Boundary Processes
    • Defining surfaces
    • LUT_Davis model
    • UNIFIED Model
  • Method 1 - Running OptiGAN with Simulation
  • Method 2 - Running OptiGAN After Simulation
  • Workflow of OptiGAN module in Gate 10
• Details: Volume and source voxelization
  • From volumes to voxels
  • From voxelization to ImageVolumes
  • From activity source to voxelized source
  • Complete example with the NEAM IEC volume + command line
• Details: Attenuation image

Preconfigured complex components

• Contributions
• Dose rate computation
• Phantoms
  • Phantom: IEC 6 spheres NEMA phantom
  • Phantom: cylinder phantom for PET NECR
• Radiation therapy linac
  • Elekta Synergy (no collimator)
  • Elekta Versa HD
• SPECT imaging systems
  • GE Discovery 670 SPECT
  • Siemens Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT
• PET imaging systems
  • Philips Vereos Digital PET
  • Siemens Biograph Vision PET

How to migrate from GATE 9 to 10

• From GATE 9 to 10: Intro
• From GATE 9 to 10 - Example Proton CT
  • Initialization
  • Geometry
  • Phantom
  • Beam
  • Physics list
  • Phase spaces
  • Particles stats
  • Main
• From GATE 9 to 10 - Example Optical Physics
• Geometry
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
• Physics
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
• Optical Surfaces
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
• Electron Source
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10
• Actor
  • Gate 9
  • Gate 10

Command line tools

• Additional Functionalities