A GUI application for creating macrofiles in GATE

Boukis, S; Sakellios, N; Loudos, G; Nikita, K

dc.contributor.author	Boukis, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Sakellios, N	en
dc.contributor.author	Loudos, G	en
dc.contributor.author	Nikita, K	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:23:24Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:23:24Z
dc.date.issued	2006	en
dc.identifier.issn	0168-9002	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/16952
dc.subject	GATE	en
dc.subject	Monte-Carlo simulation	en
dc.subject	GATE Editor	en
dc.subject	Graphical User Interface	en
dc.subject.classification	Instruments & Instrumentation	en
dc.subject.classification	Nuclear Science & Technology	en
dc.subject.classification	Physics, Particles & Fields	en
dc.subject.classification	Spectroscopy	en
dc.title	A GUI application for creating macrofiles in GATE	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.040	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.040	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2006	en
heal.abstract	GEANT4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) is a Monte Carlo simulation toolkit based on GEANT4 for PET and SPECT. GATE uses a high intuitive linear script language in a way that the code describing a system can be thought as a combination of separate objects, each one with certain parameters. The above structure of GATE's script language implies that by defining all the parameters involved in a certain implementation, the macrofiles can be created automatically, using appropriate software. The Gate Editor project, based on the above idea, aims the development of a homonym window application that exports GATE scripts based on easy to understand parameters given by the end user. Gate Editor is developed using the C++ program language in Linux environment. A WindowsXP version is also available. Object Oriented Programming allows the description of PET/SPECT system components with relative objects belonging to corresponding classes. Gate Editor is able to export macrofiles of low complicity (like the SPECT and PET benchmarks supplied with GATE). Objects such as collimator, crystal, detector blocks and sources can be described in the 'real world' and automatically constructed in 'GATE world'. The relative position of these objects is adjusted as well, all under a user-friendly interface. The end user can create his own code without concerning for the exact syntax of GATE's script language. For more realistic and complicated implementations though, further development is required. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V.	en
heal.publisher	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV	en
heal.journalName	NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.040	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000243241300050	en
dc.identifier.volume	569	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	378	en
dc.identifier.epage	380	en